... 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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