... 2014 April 8 . M42: Inside the Orion Nebula . ... Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. ... The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion . In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium , the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries . ... About APOD | ...

... The Great Nebula in Orion . ... The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. ... Visible simultaneously are the bright stars of the Trapezium in Orion's heart , the sweeping lanes of dark dust that cross the center, the pervasive red glowing hydrogen gas , and the blue tinted dust that reflects the light of newborn stars. ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula - M 42 - M 43 . ... Dust of the Orion Nebula ....

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 . ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Hubble sees a galaxy festooned with stellar nurseries . ... The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA and European Space Agencyт??s Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... STScI-PR98-15 HUBBLE REVEALS DETAILS OF A NEWLY BORN PLANETARY NEBULA Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar light bulb. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the unveiling of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. ... A fast wind - material propelled outward from the hot central star -- compresses the gas and pushes the gas bubble outward. ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

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 . ...

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