... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is set against millions of glowing stars from the brightest part of the Milky Way тАФ a region so dense with stars that barely any dark sky is seen across the picture. ...

... Bright Stars and Dark Clouds . ... Well don't feel bad - this even happened to the bright young stars of the open cluster NGC 6520. ... They formed only millions of years ago - much more recently than our ancient Sun which formed billions of years ago. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: clouds - stars - Рассеянное скопление - пылевое облако - шкала расстояний . Публикации со словами: clouds - stars - Рассеянное скопление - пылевое облако - шкала расстояний . ... NGC 7129 и NGC 7142 . ...

... 2014 October 8 . NGC 6823: Cloud Sculpting Star Cluster . ... Explanation: Star cluster NGC 6823 is slowly turning gas clouds into stars. ... Some outer parts of the cluster, visible in the featured image 's center as the stars and pillars of emission nebula NGC 6820 , contain even younger stars. ... Open star cluster NGC 6823 spans about 50 light years and lies about 6000 light years away toward the constellation of the Fox ( Vulpecula ). APOD Wall Calendar: Nebulas and Star Clusters . ...

. This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is set against millions of glowing stars from the brightest part of the Milky Way тАФ a region so dense with stars that barely any dark sky is seen across the picture. // ESO

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. ...

... 12 Oct 02 2006 1.9 Jan 26 2006 8 CB,CS,R=F. R=G, SMALL, TIGHT, BRIGHT NGC 1912 M38 17mmAT 2012 M.M . Open Cluster 8.0 II 2 r CL,B,VL,VRI,IF,STL$S Mar 16 2012 18 Mar 01 2011 12 Mar 08 2010 12 Dec 16 2009 12 Mar 20 2009 16 Mar 17 2007 1.9 17mmAT M.M . 2011 - MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES M.M . 2010 MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES 26mm 20mmUW MESSIER MARATHON - 2009 26mm ...

... Coalsack Dark Nebula или Black Magellanic Cloud - темная туманность Угольный мешок (Caldwell 99) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Туманность Угольный мешок (Coalsack Dark Nebula, Black Magellanic Cloud) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Поиск направления на Южный Полюс через звезды созвездия Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross) .: NGC 4609 Coaldust Cluster Coal Sack Crux .. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...

NGC 5986, a little-studied southern-hemisphere globular cluster, is remarkable in containing two very luminous A-F type stars, discovered by me in the 1970's. These objects are probably in their final evolution off the asymptotic giant branch. ... Determining the distance to NGC 5986 will help calibrate the absolute brightnesses of post-AGB A-F stars. ... NGC 5986: last updated 2001 December 20 . Mike Siegel and I have found a post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79 (NGC 1904). ...

One of the goals of ALFALFA (the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey) is that of verifying whether a significant population of optically faint, baryon rich, low mass systems exists. ... ALFALFA has easily detected the cloud VIRGOHI 21, reported by Davies et al. ... The clouds in the complex appear not to be gravitationally bound to one other, and may represent the remnant of an ancient episode of harassment. ... Davies, J., Minchin, R., Sabatini, S., van Driel, W., Baes, M. et al. ...

... STScI-PRC00-36 GHOSTLY REFLECTIONS IN THE PLEIADES NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. ... In 1890, American astronomer E. E. Barnard, observing visually with the Lick Observatory 36-inch telescope in California, discovered an exceptionally bright nebulosity adjacent to the bright Pleiades star Merope. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

... Non-NGC Images . ... Globular cluster in Scorpius (M80)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Scorpius (M4)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Oph (M107)..... image ..... caption . ... Nebula..... image . ... Globular cluster in Hercules (M13)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Ophiuchus (M12)..... image ..... caption . ... Infrared-bright galaxy in Ophiuchus..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Ophiuchus (M10)..... image ..... caption . ...

... Posts tagged ?globular cluster? ... Posted by hlee . Someone emailed me for globular cluster data sets I used in a proceeding paper, which was about how to determine the multi-modality (multiple populations) based on well known and new information criteria without binning the luminosity functions. ... On the other hand, obtaining globular cluster data sets was easy because of available data archives such as VizieR . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , CHASC , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon , Stars | ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

... NGC 2264 - Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster Region . This is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros (Greek for Unicorn). The cone shape is a dark absorption nebula of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of an emission nebula. The peak of the Christmas Tree is the star (SAO 114264) above the Cone's tip. The base of the tree is the bright variable type O7 star 15 Monocerotis (or S Monocerotis). ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

15m) Baerbel Koribalski (ATNF) "The HIPASS Bright Galaxy Survey" . ... 15m) Stuart Ryder (AAO) "HIPASS J0731-69: A New Tidal Feature in the NGC 2442 Group" . ... 15m) Meryl Waugh (U.Melbourne) "The Fornax Region: Searching for Clusters in HIPASS" . ... 15m) Martin Zwaan (U.Melbourne) "Constaints on the Space Density of Intragroup HI Clouds" . ... 15m) Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF) "Mapping the Magellanic Stream" . ... 15m) Joss Bland-Hawthorn (AAO) "HIPASS HI clouds and the metagalactic UV field" . ...