Astronomy Picture of the Day . M42: A Mosaic of Orion's Great Nebula . ... Credit: C. O'Dell and S. Wong ( Rice U. ), NASA Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion , an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulae. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: nebula - Orion - star formation - emission nebula - M42 . Publications with words: nebula - Orion - star formation - emission nebula - M42 . ... Emission Nebula IC 1396 . ...

... May 22, 1999 . M42: A Mosaic of Orion's Great Nebula . Credit: C. O'Dell and S. Wong ( Rice U. ), NASA . Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion , an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulae. ... In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium , the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries . ... Shocks are particularly apparent near the bright stars in the lower left of the picture. ... About APOD > . ...

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 . ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Hubble sees a galaxy festooned with stellar nurseries . ... The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA and European Space Agencyт??s Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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." ...

The Doppler shift is the effect of sound increasing or decreasing in pitch as an object moves towards or away from you. ... Light works the same way, except light is shifted to redder colours when an object is moving away, and to blue colours when an object is travelling towards us. ... Almost every object he observed had its light stretched to redder colours, indicating essentially everything in the Universe was moving away from us. ... So the Hubble constant tells us how old the Universe is. ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...

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. The great Orion nebula. The great Orion nebula is the brightest nebula in the sky. It is seen by the binoculars and with the good eyesight it may be seen by naked eye - a little bit below the three stars, located in one line, forming the Orion belt. The distance to this nebula is about 1000 light years. Back .

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... 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) . ...

... X-rays are made up of photons that are emitted from stars, or quasars, or supernovae, the sun, or simply: anything that is undergoing a change either in size or temperature or giving out heat. ... in an X-ray binary star system, in which one normal star's orbit is crossed by a neutron star, when the neutron star by means of gravitational pull takes matter from the normal star X-rays form. ... Artists conception of a normal star (HDE 226868) and a black hole taking matter from the normal star. ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: 13 November 2006 22:08:17 GMT Subject: IAA Lecture, Leonids, Astronomy news, Hi all, 1. ... LEONIDS: Don't forget the 'normal' Leonids maximum on Nov 17. This shower is active between 15 and 20 November each year, and produces respectable activity even in those years when no storm activity is expected. ... Then there's the brief intense burst expected early on Nov 19, as already notified, but repeated here for convenience: BRIEF HIGH LEONID ACTIVITY for Nov 19? ...

Тема : IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula - отражательная туманность Голова ведьмы в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. ... IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula - отражательная туманность Голова ведьмы в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. Туманность Голова ведьмы (IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula) или Большая туманность Пси Эридана (Great Nebula of Psi Eridani) в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. ... Туманность IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula это огромное облако газа и углеродной пыли имеющей голубой цвет .. ... IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula .: ...