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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Stellar End Products: The Low Mass - High Mass Connection . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... The aim of the meeting is to bring together observers and theorists from the low and high mass stellar communities with the goals of exploring the commonalities of evolved star mass loss. ...

Next: DIRECT MASSES FOR BXCIR Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: PULSATION PROPERTIES . As already indicated, V652Her is an important EHe star because its relatively short pulsation period and large amplitude pulsations allow its overall dimensions to be determined with high precision. ... Saio & Nomoto (1998) made the first successful models for the merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, and prompted Saio & Jeffery (2000) to attempt models for the merger of two helium white dwarfs. ...

Next: The ``Reflection'' Effect Up: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: The Radiopulsar PSRB1259-63 - a . The radiopulsar PSRB1259-63 in a massive binary has an extremely high eccentricity (Johnston et al. ... We have assumed that explosion occurs at a random moment on the orbit and all the mass thrown off by a star instantly leaves the system because the characteristic velocity of matter from the exploded star is much higher than the orbital velocity. ...

Program number . ... Infrared Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies . Abstract . ... Holland Ford, The Johns Hopkins University . ... An ACS H-alpha Survey of the Carina Nebula . ... A Snapshot Survey of the most massive clusters of galaxies . ... An ACS Imaging Survey of the Galaxies Hosting Strong Mg II Absorption . ... ACS observations of the galaxies in a giant Ly-alpha nebula at z~2.7 . ... An ACS Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... Past weeks: . ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA 's Goddard Space Flight Center , CI Lab Explanation: What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? ... Although angularly unresolved, variations in high energy light indicate that some of the star became shredded and reformed into a disk swirling around the dark abyss. ... Publications with keywords: black hole - accretion disk . Publications with words: black hole - accretion disk . ... Two Black Holes Merge . When Black Holes Collide . ...

... 2015 October 28 . Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star . Illustration Video Credit: NASA 's Goddard Space Flight Center , CI Lab . Explanation: What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? Recent observations from Earth-orbiting observatories of an event dubbed ASASSN-14li , in a distant galactic center , appears to be giving one star's harrowing story. ... In the hypothesized scenario envisioned , a jet formed on the spin axis of the black hole. ... About APOD | ...

Pulsars can be used to study the strong nuclear force. The density of matter at the center of neutron stars is one or two orders of magnitude larger than the density of atomic nuclei. ... Very "soft" EOSs predict lower pressures for a given density, i.e., highly compressible matter. ... If more precise measurements can confirm this high value, then many model EOSs for dense matter can be ruled out. ... Another way of studying the behavior of super-dense matter is to find fast pulsars. ...

... Sahuaro High School . A manifesto for astronomy education. ... Counselor: As you know, high school is now a five-year sequence of courses designed to parallel the new pentayear curriculum our colleges and universities have developed. ... My many years of astronomy teaching, coupled with my completely biased view that astronomy is the most exciting of all the sciences to teach kids, constantly triggers dreams of such changes in our curriculum. ... Astronomy is science for the masses. ...

... Research . ... The major problem in HVC research is the unknown distance towards most of the HVCs. ... Thilker et al. (2004) used the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to map an area of $7^{\circ} \times 7^{\circ}$ around M31 in H i . They discovered a population of HVCs located within a projected distance of about $50~\mathrm{kpc}$ from M31. ... 2004). ... The remaining HVCs around M31 are isolated in position and velocity and may represent primordial, dark-matter-dominated clouds. ...

... These sources are known from a previous study to be associated with dense gas and dust, and not associated with HII regions. All 11 sources were detected in HCO+, 9 in mm-continuum and 5 (out of 8 observed) in cm-continuum. The derived physical parameters confirm the high mass nature of these molecular clumps and suggest they are gravitationally bound. Molecular outflows were detected toward 6 sources, with flow masses and momenta much higher than in low-mass Young Stellar Objects (YSOs). ...

Supernovae are simply stars which explode. ... To understand supernovae, we need to understand stars. ... In this stage our Sun will swell up hundreds of times its current size, swallowing the Earth, and glowing hundreds of times brighter than it is now. ... Stars more than 10 times the mass of our sun have much more exciting lives. ... A Type II supernova to be precise. ... Since 1995 two teams have been discovering these objects: Our team, the High-Z SN Search, and the Supernova Cosmology Project. ...

... Mass . ... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

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 S un Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic ... Low mass stars live and die differently than high mass stars. ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

... Higher Criticism Statistic: Theory and Applications in Cosmology and Astronomy [.pdf] . ... pdf ] . ... Fitting Narrow Emission Lines in X-ray Spectra [.pdf] . ... A Convex Hull Peeling Depth Approach to Nonparametric Massive Multivariate Data Analysis with Applications . Abstract: We explore the convex hull peeling process to develop empirical tools for statistical inferences on multivariate massive data. ... We define the convex hull peeling depth, which enables to order multivariate data. ...

... In the late 70s, high speed (several hundreds km/s) plasma flow events were found in the plasma sheet boundary layer, PSBL (e.g., Lui et al., ... Angelopoulos, V., Baumjohann, W., C. F. Kennel, F. V. Coroniti, M. G. Kivelson, R. Pellat, R. J. Walker, H. L hr, and G. Paschmann, Bursty bulk flows in the inner central plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res. ... Baumjohann, W., G. Paschmann, and H. L hr, Characteristics of high-speed ion flows in the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. ... Lui et al, J. Geophys. ...