... 2008 August 13 . NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula . ... Explanation: NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. ... The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind , ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. ... Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away. Tomorrow's picture: falling stars . ... About APOD | ...

... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Credit Copyright: J-P Mets vainio ( Astro Anarchy ) Explanation: NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. ... NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Crescent Nebula - Wolf-Rayet star - stellar wind . Publications with words: Crescent Nebula - Wolf-Rayet star - stellar wind . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on August 20, 2014 | No Comments The good news first: a major aerospace contractor is researching how to build a reusable spaceplane that could dramatically cut the cost of accessing low Earth orbit. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on July 30, 2014 | ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

. This image from the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array maps the projected density of molecular gas in the central 30 light-years of W49A. Brighter colors mark denser regions. The brightest region at the image center is less than three light-years across, yet it contains about 50,000 Suns' worth of molecular gas. Roberto GalvУЕn-Madrid (ESO)/Hauyu Baobab Liu (ASIAA, Taiwan)/Tzu-Cheng Peng (ESO)

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... It sustains all life on Earth and it can be very harmful to stay out in it for too long. To study the Sun, astronomers have built special telescopes to safely view it. ... We call these stars solar twins . ... Studying these rare solar twins allows astronomers to see what our star used to be like, and what it will be like in the future. Not very far from Earth (compared to the huge vastness of space) astronomers have just discovered the oldest solar twin ever! ...

Armagh Observatory, 11 August 2000: . ... The International Workshop will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the star "P Cygni" by the Dutch mathematician and cartographer Willem Jansz Blaeu on 18 August 1600. ... The anniversary conference has been organised by Dr Mart de Groot , a world expert in hot, luminous stars, whose studies of P Cygni over 35 years have contributed significantly to our present knowledge about the star. ... P Cygni 2000 Workshop . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

Supernova Gallery The purpose of the Bright Supernovae web pages is to provide a place where people can find reference images of Supernovae. ... This is an RGB color image of Supernova 2003gs in NGC 936 Credit: Pablo Canadia . Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... This is an LRGB color image of Supernova 2003cg in NGC 3169 Credit: Pollux observatory . ... Credit: Nick Suntzeff Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... Credit: AURA/NOAO Image Library . ...

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. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to J0454.4-6713 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

Kholtygin A., Brown J., Fabrika S., Surkov A. Magnetic field connected fast line profile variability in spectra of bright O supergiants . ... Conference, held in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian AS, August 27-31, 2003, Eds.: Yu. ... Results of a study of fast line profile variability ( lpv ) in spectra of selected bright O-stars are reported. ... In the context of testing the MCWS model a program of searching for weak magnetic fields in bright O and early B stars is outlined. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...