... Credit J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA Explanation: In the Summer of 1054 A.D. Chinese astronomers reported that a star in the constellation of Taurus suddenly became as bright as the full Moon. ... It is now understood that a spectacular supernova explosion - the detonation of a massive star whose remains are now visible as the Crab Nebula - was responsible for the apparition. ... Publications with keywords: neutron star - pulsar - Crab Nebula - supernova . ... The Crab Nebula in X Rays . ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

... September 30, 1999 . Massive Stars Of 30 Doradus . ... Explanation: This gorgeous visible-light Hubble Space Telescope image shows a young cluster of massive stars at the center of the 30 Doradus Nebula . Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula , have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars . ... Tomorrow's picture: New Stars . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

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... 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. ...

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... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A. 2005, Astronomy Astrophysics 442, 587 - 596 . ... Vink, J.S., Harries, T.J., Drew, J.E. 2005, Astronomy Astrophysics 430, 213 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter A. 2002, Astronomy Astrophysics, 393, 543 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 2001, Astronomy Astrophysics, 369, 574--588 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 2000, Astronomy Astrophysics, 362, 295--309 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 1999, Astronomy Astrophysics, 350, 181--196...

... 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. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

Our publications in 1996 year . Lindner, U.; Einasto, M.; Einasto, J.; Freudling, W.; Fricke, K.; Lipovetsky, V.; Pustilnik, S.; Izotov, Y.; Richter, G. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.314, p.1-12 (10/1996) . Thuan, Trinh X.; Izotov, Yuri I.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A . ... Edited by Daniel Kunth, B. Guiderdoni, M. Heydari-Malayeri, and Trinh Xu Thuan, 1996., p.607 . ... Edited by Daniel Kunth, B. Guiderdoni, M. Heydari-Malayeri, and Trinh Xu Thuan, 1996., p.587 . ... Thuan, Trinh Xuan; Izotov, Yu. ...

... ATNF Home . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... The most reliable way to estimate the rate of mass loss from massive stars is to observe the thermal radio continuum emission from their hot stellar winds. A program using the Australia Telescope Compact Array has detected such emission from 11 massive stars, almost doubling the number of these stars known at radio wavelengths. ... Radio continuum emission from massive stars: C. Leitherer (STScI); J. M. Chapman (AAO/ATNF) ; B. Koribalski (ATNF) . ...

... 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. ...

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... Karachentsev I.D., Dolphin A., Tully R.B., Sharina M., Makarova L., Makarov D. , Karachentseva V., Sakai S., Shaya E.J. Advanced Camera for Surveys Imaging of 25 Galaxies in Nearby Groups and in the Field . ... Karachentseva V.E., Melnyk O.V., Vavilova I.B., Makarov D.I. Virial and total masses of galaxy triplets in the Local Supercluster . 2005, Astron. ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field" . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Dust in the Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... The Crab Nebula supernova remnant, NGC 1952, is the remains of a massive star that underwent a supernova explosion in AD 1054 (see the HST image ). ... A thesis topic to study in detail the properties of the dust features in the Crab Nebula is outlined. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

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