... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... A Halo for NGC 6164 . ... Credit: Don Goldman Explanation: Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. ... Spanning around 4 light-years, the nebula itself has a bipolar symmetry. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: bipolar - emission nebula . Publications with words: bipolar - emission nebula . ... Massive Stars in NGC 6357 . ...

What happens to a star heavier than five solar masses? ... Stars about ten solar masses probably behave like our five solar mass star until they reach the end of core-helium burning. ... The Crab nebula was formed after a massive explosion ripped a star apart in 1054. ... Today, the glowing outer layers of the star are still rushing away from a tiny star in the centre. ... An incredible explosion rips through the outer layers of the star, releasing colossal amounts of energy in a supernova explosion. ...

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HI envelopes around HII regions . ... We have investigated 32 HII regions and around 17 of them we have found the clumped HI envelopes with radial motions. The example of the envelope around HII regions M16 is shown on figure 1. ... The thickness of envelopes is rather great - 0.44 radius, mass are about 6E+4 mass of the Sun, kinetic energies - 10E+50 ergs. ... The model of formation of HI envelope was advanced as outcome of an operation of a summarized stellar wind of stars, exciting HII region. ...

... Right: cold gas traced by [CII] emission (red) accreting onto a primeval galaxy (green) at z=7.1 ( Maiolino et al. 2015 ) (image credit: ALMA Press Release ) . ... 2010 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... 2012 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... Right: observed distribution of the average stellar metallicities of passive and star forming galaxies in the local universe, supporting starvation/strangulation as primary quenching mechanism in low/intermediate mass galaxies ( Peng, Maiolino, Cochrane 2015 ). ...

... Discussion The Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) lies at 51 Mpc (Vacca & Conti 1992). ... Both ob jects are in interaction (Johnson et al, 1999), and they host a burst of star formation of around 5 Myr (Johnson & Conti 2000). ... E and F may be Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs), and F shows a starburst of around 4 Myr (Johnson & Conti 2000). ... Abundance ratios and age estimations of HCG 31. ... Member C shows the highest O/H ratio and the youngest burst, F (age between 2 and 3 Myr), shows the lowest one...

AN X-RAY TOUR OF MASSIVE STAR-FORMING REGIONS WITH CHANDRA Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions Leisa Townsley Patrick Broos Eric Feigelson Gordon Garmire Konstantin Getman Junfeng Wang The Penn State Chandra/ACIS Star Formation Group Orion: Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP, PI Feigelson) 2005, ApJS 160 30 Doradus diffuse: Townsley et al. ... 14 O stars, several form a 1 ring. 15 в 15 2MASS image The 40-ksec Chandra/ACIS-I observation of M17 (17 в 17): 0.5­2 keV; 2­8 keV. ...

... 2001 June 14 . Around The Arches Cluster . Credit: X-ray; NASA / CXC / Northwestern / F. Zadeh et al., IR; NASA/ HST /NICMOS, . ... Explanation: The most compact cluster of stars known in our galaxy, the Arches cluster , boasts 100 or so massive, young stars contained within a diameter of one light-year. ... Astronomers consider the tightly packed and relatively nearby Arches cluster, an analog of the furious star forming regions in galaxies millions of light-years away. ... About APOD | ...

... Contacts . 2008: . Detection of two new LBV stars. In two exterior galaxies new luminous blue variable stars (LBV) were observed. ... Fast deceleration of rotation of a magnetic star with a strong field HD 37776. 31 years of observations of the magnetic star HD 37776 resulted in detecting deceleration of its axial rotation for 17.7 0.7s (dP/P = 4.0x10 -6 per year). ... It is the first case of magnetic deceleration detection for a chemically peculiar star on the main sequence. ... Archive . ...

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... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead of a Sun-like star? ... Stars of all masses form from dense clumps within exceptionally cold molecular clouds. ... Massive stars tend to form at the centers of high-mass reservoirs of gas. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ...

... Dr. Stella Kafka . Thursday, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:00 PM . Type I Supernovae are massive stellar explosions that result from an interaction between a white dwarf and a companion whose mass it accrues in a close binary system. When the white dwarf’s mass reaches 1.4 that of the sun, the supernova occurs. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This is one of the results from the Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey that is being presented by graduate student Jagadheep D. Pandian of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Dr. Paul F. Goldsmith of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington DC. ... Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are beacons of massive star formation in our Galaxy. ...

... This is combined emission from all the gas clouds circling the black hole, between 0.1 and 10 light years out. ... These are the expanding clouds of gas left behind when a massive star comes to the end of its life and explodes, producing a supernova. ... Also known as the Veil nebula, a vast and beautiful whispy nebula left over from an exploding star. ... The Crab Nebula (120kb). ... Carbon Star (120kb) Red giant stars, surrounded by clouds or carbon dust. ... 3500 K star (64kb) , like Aldebaran. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... 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. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

home education > resources . ... Resources . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Castelvecchi, D. "A New Breed of Black Hole" in Sky Telescope , Apr. 2006, p. 36. ... Charles, P. Wagner, R. "Black Holes in Binary Stars: Weighing the Evidence" in Sky Telescope , May 1996, p. 38. ... Nadis, S. "The Secret Lives of Black Holes" in Astronomy , Nov. 2007, p. 28. ... Nadis, S. "Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable" in Astronomy , Apr. 2007, p. 26. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...