... 2012 November 26 . Wisps of the Veil Nebula . ... Explanation: Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 9,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula , also known as the Cygnus Loop. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon , remaining visible for weeks to people living at the dawn of recorded history . ... A bright wisp at the right is known as the Witch's Broom Nebula . ... About APOD | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 11, 1997 . The Annotated Galactic Center . ... Constellations of nearby stars include Sagittarius , Libra , Scorpius , Scutum , and Ophiuchus . ... Open clusters include M6 , M7 , M18 , M21 , M23 , M24 , M25 . Globular clusters include M9 , M22 , M28 , M54 , M69 , M70 . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... The Cat's Eye Nebula . ... Credit: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Explanation: Three thousand light years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals "The Cat's Eye Nebula" to be one of the most complex "planetary nebulae" known. ... For more information see NASA Space Telescope Scientific Institute press release. ... Publications with keywords: nebula - Cat's Eye Nebula . Publications with words: nebula - Cat's Eye Nebula . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

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... From Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory, and Greer Ramsey, Armagh County Museum . The National Museums Northern Ireland and the Armagh Observatory announce the launch of the exhibition "Portraits of Astronomers", at 8.00pm on Thursday 19th November at Armagh County Museum . ... Among the invited guests will be Lucinda Douglas-Menzies who took the images and whose book and exhibition is a fitting tribute to the United Nations International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:16 . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... November/December 1999 . ... Unveiling Black Holes in a Supernova Cauldron , Shmuel Balberg, Monica Colpi, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Luca Zampieri . In the next year, observations of a distant, newly discovered supernova may provide us an opportunity to identify a black hole in the debris of such a stellar explosion. ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Gallery by Ed Fox . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Image Comparisons . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... This video compares a new view of the Helix Nebula acquired with the VISTA telescope in infrared light with the more familiar view in visible light from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory. The infrared vision of VISTA reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are mostly obscured in visible light images of the Helix. ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

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Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

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... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun , and the second largest in the solar system . Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system . ... Saturn has an internal magnetic field with a dipole aligned with the rotation axis (Ness et al., ... The solar wind and Saturn's rings and satellites supply the particles that are trapped in the radiation belts. ... Between the inner and outer satellites orbits Titan, Saturn's largest moon (larger than the planet Mercury ). ... Res., ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...