... 2007 December 15 . Mountains of Creation . ... JPL-Caltech , NASA . ... An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope , it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). ... Fittingly dubbed "Mountains of Creation", these interstellar clouds are about 10 times the size of the analogous Pillars of Creation in M16, made famous in a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope view. ... About APOD | ...

The critical role of disks in the formation of high-mass stars . ... Sacco, G.G., Randich, S., Franciosini, E., Pallavicini, R., Palla, F. 2006, A Letters, in press . ... Scelsi, L., Maggio, A., Micela, G., Pillitterei, I., Stelzer, B., Briggs, K., Guedel, M., Grosso, N., Audard, M., Palla, F. 2006, A , in press . ... Franciosini, E., Pillitteri, I., Stelzer, B., Micela, G., Briggs, K.R., Scelsi, L., Telleschi, A., Audard, M., Palla, F., Guedel, M. 2006, A , in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... Dust Mountains in the Carina Nebula . ... JHU ) Explanation: Bright young stars sometimes sculpt picturesque dust mountains soon after being born. Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner. Such is the case in NGC 3324 , a star forming region near the edge of NGC 3372 , the energetic and expansive Carina Nebula. ... NGC 3372: The Great Nebula in Carina . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of SSAU and specialists of JSC Metallist-Samara work out a project on creation of import-substituting sea water desalting plants and wastewater treatment plants. ... So, the first experimental installation designed to produce one cubic meter of fresh water per hour, has a power consumption of only 10 kilowatt-hours, which is at the level of the latest foreign desalination plants. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . http://www.ssau.ru . ...

... This is combined emission from all the gas clouds circling the black hole, between 0.1 and 10 light years out. ... These are the expanding clouds of gas left behind when a massive star comes to the end of its life and explodes, producing a supernova. ... Also known as the Veil nebula, a vast and beautiful whispy nebula left over from an exploding star. ... The Crab Nebula (120kb). ... Carbon Star (120kb) Red giant stars, surrounded by clouds or carbon dust. ... 3500 K star (64kb) , like Aldebaran. ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

The H II complex N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides an excellent site to perform a detailed study of star formation in a mild starburst, as it hosts three regions of star formation at different evolutionary stages, and it is not as complicated and confusing as the 30 Doradus giant H II region. We have obtained Spitzer Space Telescope observations and complementary ground-based 4 m uBVIJK observations of N 44 to identify candidate massive young stellar objects (YSOs). ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... This image shows clearly the 3-D structure of this star formation region: a large cavity, created by the radiation pressure from new-born stars located in the brightest area of the image, lies within a huge cloud of dust and gas. Identified as a truly indepedent star cluster, NGC 1980 is associated with this well-studied star formation region, around the brightest star seen at the bottom of this image, Iota Ori. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Rings of Creation . ... In 1755, Immanuel Kant had the remarkable insight that stars and planetary systems form by the gravitational collapse and rotational flattening of interstellar clouds. Later in the 18th century, Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace refined Kant s idea by suggesting that planets condensed from rings produced at the edge of a contracting disk while the Sun formed at the center a picture thereafter known as the Nebular Hypothesis. ...

SAOtng can associate names with region markers in order to aid users in remembering the significance of the region. ... By default, marker regions that you create in SAOtng are defined to be either "source" regions or "background" regions and are colored green and red, respectively. ... This type name is controlled by the "Set Type (and Color)" option in the marker menu (activated using the right mouse button within a region). ... Colors can be associated with names for regions. ...

... The solar wind streams off of the Sun at a speed of several hundred km/s, creating a magnetized bubble of hot plasma around the Sun. This bubble is called the heliosphere, and it is separated from the interstellar gas (local interstellar medium, LISM) by a heliopause. ... The heliopause is believed to be at least 120 AU away from the Sun, i.e., all the planets are located within it ( Earth and Pluto are 1 and 40 AU away, respectively). ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

... If requested ( runbackground =Y), the task creates a background lightcurve, as well as a background spectrum for the imaging modes (FF, eFF, LW, SW) using background masks. ... The background masks are created by task badpixfind using threshold parameters, appropriate for the detection of real X-ray sources. ... As the GTIs strongly depend on the intended science this screening is not performed and only background masks, the lightcurve, and a GTI file are created by epchain . ...

... Thanks to their proximity, their various stellar populations, and their nature of galactic systems, the Magellanic Clouds are ideal testbeds for the Virtual Observatory . ... It provides an unprecedented basis for the study of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds. More about this Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds (MC2) can be found at http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/MC2/ . ... Just click on the right-side image to see them better! ...

... An investigation of the molecular clouds of the Carina HII region/molecular cloud complex - First results . ... The Carina Nebula is an extremely bright southern HII region embedded in a giant molecular cloud and contains some of the most massive stars known in our Galaxy. ... Here we present the results of the initial molecular cloud observations which were made by observing the 12CO(1-0) emission with the Mopra antenna . ... HII regions -- ISM: clouds, kinematics and dynamics -- stars: formation ....

The compression of the cloud of gas in star forming . ... These data have allowed us to create the dynamic model of the cloud of gas, around this object. ... The results on H2CO absorption lines (figure 1) have shown, that the central part of the cloud represents a clumped envelope of diameter 9 pc with radial velocity 20 km/s. The relation of radial velosity of absorption line and the whole object have allowed simple to define the direction of radial movement - itis compression. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...