... Maps of 21cm emission are dominated by warm H i, and most observations of H i absorption against continuum sources are limited to discrete points. ... Current Results At right are maps of H i emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity (Figure 1) and latitude (Figure 2) axes. ... 2000, A. J., submitted Figure 1: H i Survey Map (`; b): H i 21cm brightness integrated over all velocity channels; white is bright and black is faint. ...

... 2002 June 20 . Bright Galaxy M81 . ... Explanation: Big and beautiful spiral galaxy M81 , in the northern constellation Ursa Major , is one of the brightest galaxies visible in the skies of planet Earth. This superbly detailed view reveals its bright nucleus, grand spiral arms and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way . ... The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82 . ... About APOD | ...

Various types of stars have dust around them. In the well known case of the Pleiades the dust around the stars is unrelated to the stars, and is instead dust from an interstellar cloud that the Pleiades cluster has drifted into on its way through the galactic disk. ... The dust in interstellar space is observed in a variety of ways: due to its passive absorption of starlight ("extinction"), by its production of polarization in starlight, and then at long wavelengths due to its thermal radiation. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > My data shows an extended, bright feature - what can this be? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... You might also want to check http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/PublicSurveys/useful_links/OmegaCAM_images.html where we provide a collection of example OmegaCAM images, illustrating some special data features. ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

The Mysterious Cone Nebula . ... For example, the origin of the mysterious cone-shaped region seen on the far left remains a mystery. ... Other features in the image include red emission from diffuse interstellar hydrogen , wispy filaments of dark dust , and bright star S Monocerotis , visible on the far right. ... The dark Cone Nebula region clearly contains much dust which blocks light from the emission nebula and open cluster NGC 2264 behind it. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Spectral Line Sources Spectral Line VLBI Chris Phillips JIVE The Netherlands · VLBI High brightness temperatures · Masers : Galactic · OH, H2O, SiO, CH3OH Extragalactic · OH, H2O · Extra-galactic HI absorption Image courtesy of Lincoln Greenhill, CfA VLBI Group See also: Hernstein etal , 1999, Nature, 400, 539 Miyoshi etal , 1995, Nature, 373, 127 1 SiO masers in TX Cam Movie courtesy of Phil Diamond, Jodrell Bank SiO masers in Orion BN/KL Greenhill ...

In the PROJECT we are using the following peculiar . features of RATAN-600 . ... Brightness temperature sensitivity being equal to the antenna temperature sensitivity .. ... Receiver system .. ... Using aperture averaging effect. dual- beam and dual (multi-) frequency filtration, we demonstrated full filtration of the atmosphere noise down to the receiver noise at all scales of acoustics peaks ( Fig.1 , Fig 2 ). ... We select this frequency as the central one in our project. ... Antenna surface . ...