... Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 2170 . 28.02.2007 . ... Visible above are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them. ... APOD: 2007 February 24- X rays and the Eagle Nebula . ... The premier Chandra X-ray Observatory images of M16, the Eagle Nebula, show many bright x-ray sources in the region. ... APOD: 2007 February 23- Dust and the Helix Nebula . ... APOD: 2007 February 20- White Ridges on Mars . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... VST . ... The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. ... Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 December 24 . Emission Nebula IC 1396 . ... Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds . ... APOD presents: Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007 . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula . ... This broad panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESOт??s Very Large Telescope. ... The Carina Nebula is a perfect laboratory for astronomers studying the violent births and early lives of stars. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

Henize 206 is a region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud of the approximate scale of the Orion belt and sword. Our Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) optical images show that the region is experiencing very energetic star formation. ... A few percent of the total flux from this brightest region in Henize 206 emanates from infrared peaks of subparsec scale. ...