... Credit Copyright: Tom O'Donoghue Explanation: Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so colorful? ... Antares , a red supergiant and one of the brighter stars in the night sky , lights up the yellow-red clouds on the lower center. Rho Ophiuchi lies at the center of the blue nebula near the top. The distant globular cluster M4 is visible just to the right of Antares , and to the lower left of the red cloud engulfing Sigma Scorpii . ... MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula . ...

... 2002 December 20 . Colorful Clouds of Orion . ... Explanation: Revisiting one of the most famous nebulae in planet Earth's night sky, astrophotographer Robert Gendler has constructed this stunning, color-enhanced mosaic of the region surrounding the Great Nebula in Orion . ... Strewn with dust lanes and dark nebulae, the striking cosmic apparitions surrounding Orion's stellar nurseries are about 1,500 light-years away and are themselves several light-years across. ... About APOD | ...

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 . ...

... The larger image shows the entire nebula; the inset picture captures the complicated structure surrounding the dying star. The remarkable features of this nebula are the numerous holes in the inner shells with jets of material streaming from them. ... The multiple shells of material ejected by the dying star give this planetary nebula its odd form. ... At least four jets of material can be seen in the "full nebula" image: a pair near 6 and 12 o'clock and another near 2 and 8 o'clock. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... The Tarantula Nebula , also known as 30 Doradus and NGC 2070 , is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud (many similar regions are scattered through the LMC; see Kennicutt et al. ... The false-color image above is a log-scale display of a mosaic of several images taken with a CCD camera on the 0.6m Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in December 1994. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Books . ... How Do Planets Form? ... Astronomers are looking for clues from our solar system and others to determine whether planets form easy and fast or hard and slow. by David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University . The recent discovery of at least 50 extrasolar giant planets is one of the most profound and exciting events in modern science. ... Being an impatient lot, astronomers don't want to wait for a decade or more until the technology becomes available. ...

... Research . ... Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds | ... Made by B. Lawton (2010). Karl D. Gordon (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . Brian Babler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) . ... Lynn R. Carlson (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) . ... Margaret Meixner (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . ... 16) Gordon, K. D., (26 coauthors), Lawton, B., et al. 2012, in preparation; Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity, Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). ...

... High-velocity clouds (HVCs) were discovered by Muller, Oort & Raimond (1963) in the 21-cm line emission of neutral, atomic hydrogen. They are gas clouds which are characterised by high radial velocities incompatible with a participation in the rotation of our Galaxy. ... This suggestion was seized by Braun & Burton (1999) who identified 66 compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) with positional and kinematic characteristics being compatible with a distribution across the entire Local Group. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Noctilucent clouds as photographed by Mark Bailey from Lisdoart on 14th July 2006 at 11.30 pm. ... These so-called noctilucent (night glowing) clouds (NLCs), are formed by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, and usually appear in the northwest, through north to northeast during twilight in the late spring and summer months at our latitude. ...

... as the contribution number (if you have several contributions, e.g. 1, 2, 3): /p p First submission: /p form method=get action= http :// hea.iki.rssi.ru / integral06 -perl-bin/proceedings.pl input type =text name =email SIZE=26 MAXLENGTH =200 input type =text name =number SIZE=2 MAXLENGTH =5 value=1 INPUT type = submit value= Submit / ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Despite vast increase in our understanding of the evolutionary nature of planetary nebulae (PNe) during the last three decades, a central question remains: where is the missing mass? Theoretical evolutionary tracks predict that all stars with masses in the range 1.4-8 M Sun should become PNe. ... Clearly, much of the mass of the planetary nebula shell must remain un-ionized, and much of it may be in molecular form. ... The Magellanic Cloud PNe are ideal for this. ...

... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Moscow, Russia . ... March-October 2000 . ... Gusev A.S. Multicolor CCD Photometry of Six Lenticular and Spiral Galaxies. ... Gusev A.S., Park M.-G. Structure and stellar population of ringed barred galaxy NGC 2336 // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, V.410, P.117-129. ... Gusev A.S. Photometric Properties of Bars in Galaxies // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.579-591. ... Gusev A.S. BVRI CCD Photometry of Pecular Galaxies NGC 5605 and NGC 5665 // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.569-578. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Curious dark nebula seen as never before . Barnard 59 forms the mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula and is the subject of this new image. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Our publications in 1997 year Izotov, Yu. I.; Thuan, T. X.; Lipovetsky, V. A. Dwarf Galaxies: Probes for Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Joint Discussion 2, 21 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Izotov, Yuri I.; Thuan, Trinh X.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 01 1997, v.108, p.1 . ... Pustil'nik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Y. I.; Brinks, E.; Thuan, T. X.; Knyazev, A. Y.; Neizvestnyi, S. I.; Ugryumov, A. V. Pis'ma Astron. ... 74, August 1997, p. 536 . ...