Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula , however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust . Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. ... February . ... February 2006 . ... Publications with keywords: M 16 - Eagle Nebula . ...

... 2014 February 16 . Inside the Eagle Nebula . ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula , however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust . Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. ... Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. ... About APOD | ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

... 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) ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Search Results for ?stellar nursery? Posted on February 21, 2013 | No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on March 2, 2016 | ... Posted on November 12, 2015 | ... Posted on July 28, 2015 | ...

The HDF observations were carefully scheduled to minimize the effect of scattered light. Nevertheless, Scattered light from the bright earth produces a visible X pattern in about 25% of the HDF data frames. ... The filled-in portion of the histograms indicates data where the scatttered light patern is visible to the eye. ... A major difference between version 1 and version 2 of the data reduction was the treatment of scattered light. ... version 1 . ...

... NGC 281 (Sharpless 184) is a bustling cradle of star formation about 10,000 light years away. ... The central stars are being formed from the surrounding gas, which emits a large amount of hydrogen alpha (Ha) light after being excited by stellar radiation. ... The dark areas overlaying the brighter ones in the middle of the image are dense clouds of gas known as Bok Globules. ... 4) Image registration . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

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Venus in visible light (violet filter) 50k gif ; 25k jpg . ... image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; 327k jpg . ... Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; 321k jpg . ... Gula Mons and Cunitz crater, flat image of gulacun.gif 250k gif ; 178k jpg . ... Crater Farm, Lavinia Region, small 107k gif ; 147k jpg . ... Central Ovida region, 1 deg s by 83 deg 191k gif ; 531k jpg . ... Pictures .. ... Venus .. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract EPIC (pn will be used as an example) light-curves of a point-like source, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with epproc or available as PPS product; it will bear the name: PN.fits in this thread). The content of this thread is the same as Extraction of a X-ray light curve for a point-like source (command-line version). ... in the lccorr GUI window (see Fig.7) define at least the following widgets: . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

8th of February 2016 . The Year of the Monkey . ... The 8th of February 2016 is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey. Overlaid onto the Hubble color-composite image for the Monkey Head Nebula is a pattern of Chinese paper cutting for a monkey. ... The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) is an HII emission nebula located in Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175 about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. Picture credit: ESA/Hubble NASA) . ...

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