... Credit Copyright: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) Explanation: Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on . Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... Publications with keywords: M 104 - Sombrero galaxy - HST . Publications with words: M 104 - Sombrero galaxy - HST . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | ... Before the modern era of technological astronomy, to know anything [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments In, say 1975, there was only one kind of ?stuff? in the Universe, matter made of protons and neutrons. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... 2008 October 28 . The North America Nebula . ... Explanation: The North America Nebula in the sky can do what most North Americans on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent , the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

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." ...

... Armagh Observatory received many telephone and internet reports from members of the public regarding sightings of a bright meteor or fireball which crossed over Northern Ireland in the early morning of Sunday, 10th October. ... Account: I was driving on the main Armagh/Portadown Road travelling towards Richhill when the sky in front of me was lit up by a couple of very bright flashes of light which were followed by a trail of white light. ... The trail faded over approximately 20 seconds. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... 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. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Purchase through the AstroShop . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Lighting the Nebulae . ... The interplay of light and atoms paints the beautiful palette of planetary nebulae. ... So come along on a trip to the inside of a planetary nebula and see what really happens as light and atoms violently interact to create some of the loveliest objects in the night sky. home | ... astroshop | ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... Faster Then Light Travel? ... Posted by Duane Eddy on October 19, 2004 20:53:15 UTC . ... From you previous statement you seem to believe in faster then light (particle / wave ?) travel is attained. ... Only photons travel at the speed of light - yanniru - October 21, 2004 - 12:29 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

The pupil mirror array for NIFS was successfully manufactured in early October 2001 by Labor fuer Mikrozerspanung (LFM) of the University of Bremen. The monolithic array of 29 toroidal mirrors are diamond machined in an aluminum bar. ... White light interferometric image of the central element of the pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array in it storage container. ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... Высокого качества (19.5 MB) . Низкого качества (2.9 MB) MPEG . ... Низкого качества (2.9 MB) This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red). ... To produce a movie of reasonable length the sequence was looped several times, as in looped weather satellite images. ... Авторские права: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J.Hester et al.; ...