... Star Forming Region Hubble X . ... In nearby galaxy NGC 6822, this glowing emission nebula complex surrounds bright, massive, newborn stars. ... Scrolling right will reveal the full picture, a color mosaic of Jupiter from the Cassini spacecraft. The Rosette Nebula . ... Inside the nebula lies an open cluster of bright young stars designated NGC 2244. NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Approaching Asteroid Eros . ... Aurora Astern . ... Distant Galaxies in Radio Vision . ...

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. ...

... 2002 June 20 . Bright Galaxy M81 . ... Explanation: Big and beautiful spiral galaxy M81 , in the northern constellation Ursa Major , is one of the brightest galaxies visible in the skies of planet Earth. This superbly detailed view reveals its bright nucleus, grand spiral arms and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way . ... The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82 . ... About APOD | ...

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... STScI-PRC01-07 NGC 4013: A GALAXY ON THE EDGE NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk. ... Dark clouds of interstellar dust stand out in the picture because they absorb the light of background stars. ... Dark interstellar clouds are believed to be where new stars are formed. ...

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) . ...

... The Magellanic Stream . ... Atomic neutral hydrogen gas in and around galaxies is detected via the 21-cm spectral line of hydrogen . ... The few bright dots in the middle of the image are hydrogen emission from more distant galaxies in the Sculptor Group. The data for this study (published in Nature by Mary Putman et al. ) are from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS), which was carried out over several years with the 21-cm multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes Telescope. ... today * ATNF | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

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... Stars are born in big clouds of gas and dust in the Universe. ... This amazing new picture shows a small part of a cloud in our own galaxy (called the Milky Way) in which stars are being formed. In the picture you can see bright arc shapes in the cloud, but what created them is a mystery. ... When all of their fuel is gone, these massive stars explode in what is called a supernova explosion the biggest firework display in the Universe! ...

... higher temperatures -- faster motion -- higher energy particles -- break into nucleus . ... Spectral type depends on the stellar mass: high mass stars are profiligate with their fuel supply, and have brief, but spectacular, careers; M dwarfs live forever. Stellar lifetimes range from several million years for stars with 100 solar masses . ... These `failed stars' are known as 'brown dwarfs'. ... a brown dwarf of 0.01 M(sun) (10 Jupiter masses) takes only 10 7 years to reach the same limit. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... Stars ? Birth and Death . ... Stars - Birth and Death . MRAO Telescopes . ... Radio telescopes allow us to observe the very earliest and latest stages of a star?s life: these observations help us understand how the Sun, Earth and planets formed, and how they will die. ... In the picture on the right there are faint twin jets of molecular gas moving away from the young star; on the scale of this picture this star, marked by the white cross, is no larger than a pinhead. ...

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