... 20.12.2006 . ... Credit: Davide De Martin ( ESA / Hubble ), the ESA/ ESO / NASA , Photoshop FITS Liberator Digitized Sky Survey 2 Explanation: For reasons unknown, NGC 6357 is forming some of the most massive stars ever discovered. Near the more obvious Cat's Paw nebula, NGC 6357 houses the open star cluster Pismis 24 , home to these tremendously bright and blue stars. The overall red glow near the inner star forming region results from the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. ... December 2006 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... April 4, 1996 . The Keyhole Nebula Near Eta Carinae . Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin . Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board . ... Designated NGC 3324, the Keyhole Nebula is a smaller region superposed on the bright Eta Carina Nebula . The Eta Carina Nebula is the largest nebula in angular extent on the sky, larger than the famous Orion Nebula , but its southerly location makes it less familiar to Northern Hemisphere skywatchers. ... About APOD | ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

... Many of these radi HII regions lie beyond the range of optical detection, at distances exceeding several kpc; they thus provide a comprehensive coverage of the southern HII regions in the Galaxy over the longitude range 210 to 360^o and consistute a vital data base for the study of galactic structure. ... C Caswell (1972) . ... In column 16, "V", or a specific nebula name, denotes the presence of a visible optical counterpart, and "A" indicates the absence of an optical counterpart. ...

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. ...

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. ...

... STScI-PRC98-11A STARING INTO THE WINDS OF DESTRUCTION: HST/NICMOS IMAGES OF THE PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 7027 The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has captured a glimpse of a brief stage in the burnout of NGC 7027, a medium-mass star like our sun. ... The material settles into a wind of gas and dust blowing away from the dying star. ... During this phase, intense ultraviolet radiation from the central star lights up a region of gas surrounding it. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 160 . Spectral Index: 0.5 . ... Optical: Large ring, near Rosette nebula. ... Milne & Dickel 1974, AuJPh, 27, 549. Parkes 64-m at 2.7 GHz (9'). ADS . Velusamy & Kundu 1974, A&A, 32, 375. NRAO 300-ft at 2.7 GHz (5'), part only. ... Arecibo at 111 MHz (1': S=462?180 Jy) and S 610 MHz =245 Jy. ... Deep optical plates. ... Effelsberg 100-m at 2.7 GHz (4'.4: S=97.6?12.5 Jy), plus review of flux densities. ... 1985, ApJ, 292, 29. ... 1996, ApJ, 461, 820. ...

... Absorption by neutral atomic hydrogen in luminous spiral galaxies provides an excellent tool to study the gas kinematics in their nuclear regions. ... Since the absorption lines are intrinsically narrow as a result of the low temperatures of the optically thick gas, typically 30 to 150 K (Dickey, Salpeter & Terzian 1979), it is surprising that numerous galaxies show H I absorption over a broad range of velocities (a few hundred kms -1 ); see e.g., Fig. ... range . ... NGC 253 . ... NGC 660 . ...

... region (region-6.2.2) [xmmsas_20030110_1802-5.4.1] . ... module region _mod subroutine region get parameters; open source list; foreach source transform celestial coordinates to sky location; calculate initial estimated extraction radius; calculate distance to nearest neighbour ; loop sort sources in ascending order of nearest neighbour separation; initialise array of flags; ; First pass considering just nearest- neighbour pairs foreach source in sorted list if( ...

... The stars examined here were primarily culled from two lists of X--ray sources in Orion. ... The second region is two degrees in extent east--west and ten degrees north--south with Orionis being near the northern edge. ... In the end, two main regions were chosen for monitoring: stars near Orionis and stars northwest of the belt of Orion. ... The PSPC identified 22 sources within 15 of Orionis in addition to the sources listed in Table 1 , giving a total of 85 X--ray sources in the Orionis region. ...

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. ...

The Earth's magnetosphere global structure is conditioned by the interaction of the Solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. ... Solar wind (SW) - the region outside BS; . ... Auroral field lines (AUR) region - the funnel-shape cavity restricted by the geocentric distance of the order of 6 RE, between surfaces formed by magnetic field lines emerged from the polar and equatorial OVAL borders; . ... Fairfield D.H., Average and unusual location of the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock, J. Geophys. ...

. MSU-E data examples. Russian (WIN) . Orenburg (Russia) . 18/01/1999 . Astrakhan' Region . Near Znamensk . 10/05/1998 . Astrakhan' Region . Near Znamensk . 24/07/1998 . Arkhangelsk Region . Fire in August 1997 . Moscow . 16/03/1995 . Guriev, . 2/07/1996 . example 1 . Guriev, . 2/07/1996 . example 2 . © 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia.

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 2004/06 Leiden, Hague, Amsterdam (Netherlands) ::01/06/04 Moscow-Leiden. Flight, trip to Leiden, first walk . ... In the Leiden railway station, near ticket office. ... Walking towards Bastion Hotel we leave Leiden and enter Oegstgeest . ... Ducklings are hiding in the grass near canal . ... Entering old sea port gate . ... A view through port gate to the .... street . North port gate dome . ... Canal in the centre of the Leiden . ...