... IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula . ... This one, cataloged as IC 2948 is near the star Lambda Centauri and not far on the sky from the better known Eta Carinae Nebula . Embedded in the reddish glowing cloud of hydrogen gas , typical of emission nebulae found in massive star-forming regions, is the energetic young star cluster IC 2944. ... Publications with keywords: IC 2944 - star formation - emission nebula . Publications with words: IC 2944 - star formation - emission nebula . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 October 17 . Bright Nebulae of M33 . ... Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of bright emission nebulae. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

The IMF and Star Formation History of the Stellar Clusters in the Vela D Cloud . ... 2005, A , in press . ... M.T. Beltran, J. Brand, R. Cesaroni, F. Fontani, S. Pezzuto, L. Testi, S. Molinari . ... 2005, Proceedings of the IAUS227 "Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics", in press . ... Francesco Palla . ... Podio, L., Bacciotti, F., Nisini, B., Giannini, T., Massi, F., Eisloeffel, J., Ray, T.P. 2005, Ap Lecture Series, "Cores to Clusters", in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

There is often dust associated with ionized regions. Compact HII regions usually have associated dust from a molecular cloud in which the massive star is being "born". ... For such stars the dust is not produced by the star, and a variety of dust features are observed. The planetary nebulae also usually have associated dust from the previous stage of evolution where they were either carbon stars or M-type giants. ... The feature near 11.5 microns in the IC 418 spectrum may be due to SiC dust. ...

Star formation is often best manifested by bright H II regions.These are regions of hydrogen which have been ionized by ultraviolet photons which are emitted from massive stars (typically stars more than 20 times the mass of the Sun). ... A narrowband filter image centered on this wavelength will then readily reveal these H II regions and hence the current sites of star formation in a galaxy, The luminous blobs that can be seen here are all H II regions . ... NGC 3558 Visual . NGC 3558 Infrared . ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...