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... 2004 September 17 . IC 1805: Light from the Heart . ... Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1805 is a mix of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. ... The short answer is no, even though the image was made with light visible to the human eye . Light from this and other glowing gas clouds surrounding hot, young stars comes in very narrow bands of emission characteristic of energized atoms within the clouds. ... About APOD | ...

... IC 1396 and Surrounding Starfield . ... 19.08.2009 . ... Credit Copyright: Thomas W. Earle Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1396, visible on the upper right, mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds . ... This wide angle view also captures surrounding emission and absorption nebula. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: IC 1396 - emission nebula . Publications with words: IC 1396 - emission nebula . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... This submillimetre-wavelength image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula M78 made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope (overlaid on a view of the same region in visible light) shows the position of interstellar dust grains (orange) to show where new stars are being formed.( ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Unlike the clouds on Earth which are made of water, nebulae are made up of gas and dust. ... Gas and dust are cold, so they don't glow with light bright enough for our eyes to see the hotter an object is, the brighter it shines. ... The nebula in this picture is glowing red because of a very hot star at its centre, you can see it here as the seagull's eye . ... This is dust that has been lit up by hot, young stars inside the nebula. ... The two stars orbit each other, we called them binary stars! ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of starbirth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. A ground-based telescopic view (upper left insert) shows that the dust lane girdles the entire elliptical galaxy. This lane has long been considered the dust remnant of a smaller spiral galaxy that merged with the large elliptical galaxy. ...

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 . ...

These images reveal light from a massive stellar outburst in the Carina Nebula reflecting off dust clouds surrounding a behemoth double-star system. The color image at left shows the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region located 7,500 light-years from Earth. The massive double-star system Eta Carinae resides near the top of the image. ... The three black-and-white images at right show light from the eruption illuminating dust clouds near the doomed star system as it moves through them. ...

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... 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. ...

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... In one situation, we can use light from quasars to probe the material between us and them because that light may pass through one or more galaxies or gas clouds on its way to us. The gas inside the galaxies or the intergalactic clouds acts then as a filter, absorbing selected wavelengths from the quasar light. ... Light from a quasar must pass through clouds of gas and even faint galaxies -- each leaving its imprint on the light -- before we receive it here on Earth. ... Gravitational lensing . ...

... HST switched to 2-gyro mode operations 18 months ago, in anticipation of this eventuality. ... NICMOS was not available for scheduling this week; observations will resume next week. ... Jane Charlton, The Pennsylvania State University . ... Abstract . ... Two new `bullets' for MOND: revealing the properties of dark matter in massive merging clusters . ... Photometric Imaging of Asteroid 2 Pallas . ... Systemic and Internal motions of the Magellanic Clouds: Third Epoch Images . ... Past weeks: . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Astronomy news . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., designed and built the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and is home to its project manager, Mary White. ...

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... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...