Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton /EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger Explanation: In 1995, a now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula . ... Toward the other extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum , XMM-Newton's X-ray vision reveals the massive, hot stars of the nebula's embedded star cluster. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

The critical role of disks in the formation of high-mass stars . ... Sacco, G.G., Randich, S., Franciosini, E., Pallavicini, R., Palla, F. 2006, A Letters, in press . ... Scelsi, L., Maggio, A., Micela, G., Pillitterei, I., Stelzer, B., Briggs, K., Guedel, M., Grosso, N., Audard, M., Palla, F. 2006, A , in press . ... Franciosini, E., Pillitteri, I., Stelzer, B., Micela, G., Briggs, K.R., Scelsi, L., Telleschi, A., Audard, M., Palla, F., Guedel, M. 2006, A , in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... 2009 December 10 . The Colors of IC 1795 . ... Explanation: This colorful cosmic portrait features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. ... Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula , as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Rings of Creation . ... In 1755, Immanuel Kant had the remarkable insight that stars and planetary systems form by the gravitational collapse and rotational flattening of interstellar clouds. Later in the 18th century, Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace refined Kant s idea by suggesting that planets condensed from rings produced at the edge of a contracting disk while the Sun formed at the center a picture thereafter known as the Nebular Hypothesis. ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope.€а (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...

Spinning discs in space Mass feeding and feedback in YSOs . ScienceAlert Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form? By Tim Wetherell. Sticking to the stars . The complex processes creating accretion discs . ... Disks, Winds and Jets: From Planets to Quasars . ... Theory and modelling of accretion processes . Protoplanetary discs . ... Star formation . Jets and winds . ... Email: raquel@mso.anu.edu.au . ... Webpage: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~raquel/ . ...

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 . ...

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... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... ESO Press Video eso0142 shows the Hubble and VLT views of the head of Column 1 of the Pillars of Creation in Eagle Nebula (cf. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

The File System . This section describes how you can create new files, copy existing files, and delete obsolete files. ... RENAME to change the name of a file. ... Files can be created in several ways: text can be entered from the keyboard via the CREATE command, an editor can create a file, as can a running program, and files can be copied from other directories. ... To delete obsolete files, use the DELETE command followed by a file name or file name template (wildcards). ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Explore how our universe and all the objects it contains form and evolve in Cosmic Origins a must-have app brought to you by the editors of Astronomy , the world s best-selling astronomy magazine. ... Discover the basic galaxy types, how black holes affect the universe and how galaxies and their larger conglomerates т?? galaxy clusters т?? form and evolve through cosmic time. ...

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

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... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

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... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of SSAU and specialists of JSC Metallist-Samara work out a project on creation of import-substituting sea water desalting plants and wastewater treatment plants. ... So, the first experimental installation designed to produce one cubic meter of fresh water per hour, has a power consumption of only 10 kilowatt-hours, which is at the level of the latest foreign desalination plants. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . http://www.ssau.ru . ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...