... The most active part of the Orion Nebular Cloud Complex is an area known as the Kleinmann-Low Nebula. There, a cluster of young and forming stars is embedded in a molecular cloud filled with dust. ... In this picture, the seemingly familiar teardrop-shaped object just right of center is actually an unusually situated disk of gas and dust. ... Dark Cloud . ... Ominously foreshadowing events to come, a dark cloud of obscuring dust stands out against a luminous star field in the Milky Way. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... 1 Comment Located 12 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, Messier 82 is sometimes called the тАШCigar GalaxyтАЩ from its shape. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 21, 2012 | ... 1 Comment The Universe is 13.75 billion years old.It is easy to say, but what does that mean in Earthly terms?Let?s squeeze the whole history of the Universe into a year! ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... STScI-PRC00-30 HUBBLE PEEKS INTO A STELLAR NURSERY IN A NEARBY GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that is a satellite of our own Milky Way. ... Astronomers are especially keen to study star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud, because its chemical composition is different from that of the Milky Way. ...

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• Saturn's Moon Hyperion
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We investigate dust production and stellar mass loss in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362. ... We detect several cluster members near the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) that exhibit infrared excesses indicative of circumstellar dust and find that dust is not present in measurable quantities in stars below the tip of the RGB. ... The two most extreme stars, variables V2 and V16, contribute up to 45% of the total cluster dust-traced mass loss. ...

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• KDG's Press Releases
• Small Magellanic Cloud-Type Interstellar Dust in the Milky Way
• The Dust-to-Gas Ratio in the Small Magellanic Cloud Tail

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about the Local Group of galaxies: . APOD: 2000 October 23 - Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205 in the Local Group . ... Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32 , M33 , the Large Magellanic Cloud , the Small Magellanic Cloud , Dwingeloo 1 , several small irregular galaxies , and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies . ... APOD: 1999 January 22 - Pegasus dSph: Little Galaxy of the Local Group . ...

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• APOD: 2003 August 19 - Mars Through a Small Telescope
• APOD: 2012 December 6 - 47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
• APOD: 2014 February 17 - The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula

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. ...

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• VV29 = Arp 188 = The Chainsaw Galaxy
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• Dougal Mackey - Research

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

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• Astronomy HyperText Book: Interstellar Medium

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to APEX/Sequitor . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... This sequence shows a spectacular region of star formation in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). ... It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile....

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• A close look at an APEX view of part of the Orion Nebula | ESO Ireland
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... 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 . ...

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... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... An older open cluster takes a turn in the spotlight . ... NGC 2100 is an open cluster, which means its stars are relatively loosely bound by gravity. ... So while NGC 2100 might be older than its neighbors in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it is still a youngster by the standards of star clusters. ...

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• Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look

... Messier 24 Delle Caustiche (M24) - звездное облако Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (SSC) в созвездии Стрелец (Sagittarius) .. ... Просмотр полной версии : Messier 24 Delle Caustiche (M24) - звездное облако Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (SSC) в созвездии Стрелец (Sagittarius) .. ... Delle Caustiche, иначе Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (SSC), или Messier 24 (М24) - звездное облако в созвездии Стрелец (Sagittarius (http://www.starlab.ru/showpost.php?p=336310&postcount=6)) .. ...

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. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . source= . reduce chi^2 = . nh = 1.2741 10^22/cm^2 . PARAMETERS . --end-- . Back to G039.7-02.0W Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

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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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The LCDM paradigm: successes and challenges on scales of galaxies Anatoly Klypin (NMSU) LCDM · · · · DM profiles, concentrations, .. Clustering of galaxies: P(k) and correlation functions Satellites: abundance, number-density profiles Galaxies and Dark Matter: abundances Dwarfs. ... Springel et al 2008. ... Klypin et al 2010. ... Observations - LCDM: just enough Magellanic Clouds Observations LCDM Vmax > 50 km/s Busha et al 2010 Dark matter profiles: standard LCDM Aquarius simulation. ...

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... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

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Two weeks ago a small space rock called 2008 TC3 made astronomical history as the first asteroid that both impacted the Earth and was also observed telescopically while still out in space and on its collision path with our planet. Since then, three more small near-Earth objects making very close approaches have been picked up by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona, the third just a day ago. ... See also: Objects currently known to be within 45 million kilometres of the Earth . ...

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... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/24/2012 23:22:03 . Large and Small Magellanic Clouds . These are 2 irregular dwarf galaxies that are members of the local group and are currently companions to our Milky Way galaxy. ... The Large Magellanic Cloud is 160,000 light years away and The Small Magellanic Cloud (in the constellation Tucana) is 200,000 light years away. They are 75,000 light-years apart from each other. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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Herschel counted stars and produced the map of the Milky Way shown below. The Sun is approximately in the center (slightly to the left) and the dark lanes through Sagittarius give the "jaw" on the right. ... The picture above is an infrared image taken by the DIRBE instrument on the COBE satellite. ... So we now know that the Milky Way is many times larger than Herschel thought it was, and that the Sun is quite far from the center. ... Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

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