... October 27, 1995 . The Tarantula and the Supernova . Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin . ... Explanation: In this close-up of the Large Magellanic Cloud , the spidery looking nebula on the left is fittingly known as as the Tarantula nebula. It is an emission nebula surrounding a cluster of hot, young stars called the 30 Doradus super cluster. This cluster may contain the most massive stars known (about 50 times the mass of the Sun). ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

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 . ...

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. ...

We present new images of the reflection nebula surrounding the R Coronae Borealis Star, UW Centauri. ... Instead, the morphology of the nebula appears to change as different parts are illuminated by light from the central star that is modulated by shifting thick dust clouds near its surface. ... In this way, the central star acts like a lighthouse shining through holes in the dust clouds and lighting up different portions of the nebula. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 21 . ...

... An Iridescent Cloud Over Ohio . ... Forty Thousand Meteor Origins Across the Sky . ... M31: The Andromeda Galaxy . ... Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. ... This panoramic image tracing constellations in the southern sky shows off a beautiful vista toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. ...

... Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. ... These clouds come in many different varieties: some are the remains of dead stars, while others are areas of vigorous star birth, like this one. In fact, two different types can be seen in this striking new image: emission nebulae and reflection nebulae. ... The bluish patch next to the red emission nebula shows light from recently formed stars being scattered in other words, reflected in many different directions by these tiny particles. ...

... Posts tagged ?crab nebula? ... An email was forwarded with questions related to the data sets found in ?Be an INTEGRAL astronomer? Among the sets, the following scatter plot is based on the Crab data. ... Tags: ANOVA , block design , crab nebula , F-test , gaussinity , integral , light curve . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

... 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 . ...

... Stars . ... Dark Nebula: The Taurus Molecular Cloud, in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), lies about 450 light years from Earth. This image is a composite of observations made with submillimetre wavelengths, which reveal the heat glow of the molecular cloud (shown in orange tones) and in visible light to reveal the rich background of stars. Image credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/A. Hacar et al./ ... The Orion nebula is a very famous nebula and we know that it is full of stars. ...

... The explosion of a star as a Supernova is certainly one of the most energetic events observable in the whole universe, and their radiation covers the whole band from radio to gamma-rays, accompanied with neutrino emission. ... Type Ia SNe are supposed to result from mass transfer inside a binary system consisting of a white dwarf star and an evolving giant star, which results in a termonuclear explosion. ... Core-collapse Supernovae . ... For comments please contact: gcresci@arcetri.astro.it . ...

Gamma-rays from the GC . M.Chernyakova (DIAS), D.Malyshev (DIAS), F.Aharonian (DIAS, MPIK), R.M.Crocker(MPIK), D.I.Jones(MPIK) 1 10°x10° Count and TS maps (>300 GeV) Gamma-rays from the GC 2 TS maps of the GC at different energies 300 MeV ­ 3GeV 3 GeV ­ 30 GeV 30 GeV ­ 300 GeV Gamma-rays from the GC 3 4 Gamma-rays from the GC Lightcurve 5 Gamma-rays from the GC Source spectrum Model X-ray and low-energy emission come from the central object, probably SMBH accretion disk. ...

Next: UNSOLVED PROBLEMS Up: OTHER HYDROGEN-DEFICIENT STARS Previous: Carbon stars . During the past century, three stars have been observed as being both hot subdwarfs and RCB stars at different times. V605Aql is now the hydrogen-deficient central star of a planetary nebula (Abell58). ... In 1996, an unremarkable faint blue star suddenly brightened and within three years had become a very cool and luminous carbon star, now known as Sakurai's Object or V4334Sgr ([ Nakano et al. ... 1999 ]). ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... One supernova type, two different sources . With two mechanisms at work in type Ia supernovae, scientists must consider each separately when calculating cosmic distances and expansion rates. ... Two different models explain the possible origin of type Ia supernovae, and different studies support each model. ... If two different mechanisms are at work in type Ia supernovae, then the two types must be considered separately when calculating cosmic distances and expansion rates. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... This is a colour-composite image of E0102-72.3 - a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud. ...

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... We can investigate projection of this distribution onto the celestial sphere in two ways: in terms of lines of constant SN frequencies per one square degree for all galaxies from the sample (Figure 36 ), and in terms of constant GW amplitudes at a given SN frequency per square degree (Figure 44 ). ... Figure 45: The sky distribution of the total supernova frequency from nearby galaxies in terms of lines of equal frequencies per square degree. ...

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... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...