... Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205 in the Local Group . ... Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 . ... Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters. The above open cluster, M11, contains thousands of stars and is just over three thousand light years distant. ... Dust and Gas Surrounding Star R Coronae Australis . ... Thinner dust near the stars reflects light from R Coronae Australis (upper right) and neighbor TY Coronae Australis, giving their surroundings a flowing appearance. ...

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about open clusters: . APOD: 2006 January 9 - M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster . ... The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. ... Two types of star clusters are visible in our Milky Way Galaxy : open clusters and globular clusters . ... Aged 80 million years, M47 is a smaller but looser cluster of about 50 stars spanning 10 light-years. ... Index | ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Globular cluster M28, open cluster M25, and planetary nebula NGC 6781 . August 20 27, 2015: Globular cluster M28 and open cluster M25 in Sagittarius offer small-telescope owners nice views, while large-telescope owners can seek out planetary nebula NGC 6781 in Aquila. ... Globular cluster M28 . ... Planetary nebula NGC 6781 . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Usage of ESO Videos and Images . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Catch a Star 2013 . ... The pie-chart shows the starтАЩs composition: it is almost entirely made from hydrogen and helium with only a tiny trace of heavier elements. ...

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... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

One of the world's largest optical telescopes, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), in which the Armagh Observatory has a share, was officially unveiled today by the South African President Thabo Mbeki in Sutherland, a small town in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. SALT Dome . ... Speaking at the official opening, South African President Thabo Mbeki said: "SALT means that our country will remain at the forefront of cutting-edge astronomical research. ... SALT Mirrors . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

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. ...

... N aiad ( "NAY ed" ) is the innermost of Neptune's known satellites: orbit : 48,200 km from Neptune diameter : 58 km mass : ? ... T halassa ("tuh LASS eh") is the second of Neptune's known satellites: orbit : 50,000 km from Neptune diameter : 80 km mass : ? ... D espina is the third of Neptune's known satellites: orbit : 52,600 km from Neptune diameter : 148 km mass : ? ... G alatea ("gal eh TEE eh") is the fourth of Neptune's known satellites: orbit : 62,000 km from Neptune diameter : 158 km mass : ...

... This letter contains information about scientific contest - Olympiad, which is held yearly in Chernogolovka: a small pictures- que village not far from Moscow, in which the Noginsk Scientific Center (NSC) of the Russian Academy of sciences is situated. The contest is participated by pupils of the 8-th to the 11-th forms and consists in solving problems in physics, astronomy and mathema- tics. The Olympiad is one of interesting traditions of our scienti- fic centre. ...

... The Dish's elevation drive close up . Photo by Shaun Amy (CASS) . The Parkes Observatory occasionally holds Open Days, providing the best opportunity to get a very close look at our giant 64-m telescope. The photo above was taken during the Open Day in September 2007 by Shaun Amy. A tour group inspects the counterweight and elevation drive motors from the azimuth track. Throughout the year our Parkes Visitor Centre staff are looking forward to see you. | ... today * ATNF | ...

... Archives . ... Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series . ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... Images may be Opened and Closed with different structure elements. ... Tags: close , dilate , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , erode , Morphological operator , open , set theory . Category: Imaging , Jargon | ...

... The first step is to open and inspect the camera body. ... Notice that there are snap locks on both sides of the camera body, one of which should already be open since it contained the film removed by the developer. To open the camera body, peel back some of the yellow sticker identifying the camera as KODAK on the top and bottom of the camera and unsnap the plastic pieces. ... You should now have four pieces: the front cover, back cover, middle (main camera with lens), and a cylindrical spool. ...

These are some introductory pictures for the mapping station located in the Support building. This is a full view of the station with the camera mounted overhead and the plug and laser attachments below. Kinematic mounts are shown on plate's lip. ... The plug plate is exposed; you can barely see the gradient and small fiber plugs across the face. ... Some final pieces are the support tables for the mapping station computer, still boxed and soon to be assembled. ...

... Sitting (left to right): Yu.S.Ilyashenko, academician V.I.Arnold, A.B.Sossinsky, N.N.Konstantinov, T.Galkina, V.P.Pavlov, S.K.Lando, academician Ya.G.Sinai, academician D.V.Anosov. ... Left to right: S.S.Anisov, graduate student of the IUM; Yu.S.Ilyashenko, president of the IUM; S.M.Gussein-Zade, professor at MSU and IUM, member of the board of trustees. ... Academicians V.I.Arnold (chairman of the board of trustees, to the left) and S.P.Novikov. ...

... The relationship of the mass and the observed galactocentric distance R -- (a), and that of the mass and the total dissipation velocity n taken from Gnedin, Ostriker (1997) -- (b). The dotted line in diagram (a) shows the "cone of survival" according to the paper by Surdin and Arkhipova (1998) . ... The solid line is a regression stright line for the main sequence of clusters, and the dotted line parallel to it separates the sequence of clusters of anomalously small mass shown by open triangles. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

... Some striking examples include a shot of a tram in the morning , or another view of the Vasco da Gama bridge , and many others.. ... In the picture below, we are looking North towards Lisboa (Lisbon). ... Below is a distant view of this bridge from the millenary St. George's Castle. ... From the same Elevator, looking North, we see the Rossio square. ... Going westwards about 7 km, you see Padrao dos Descobrimentos, built in 1943 for trhe celebrations of the 800 years of Portuguese independence. ...