... X-ray Hot Supernova Remnant in the SMC . ... 9.12.1999 . ... This supernova remnant is located about 210,000 light-years away in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) , so the detailed Chandra X-ray image is impressive - particularly as it reveals what appear to be strange spoke-like structures radiating from the remnant's center. ... 2007 . ... Publications with keywords: Chandra - supernova remnant - X-ray . Publications with words: Chandra - supernova remnant - X-ray . ...

... 2009 February 5 . NGC 604: X-rays from a Giant Stellar Nursery . Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC / R. Tuellmann ( Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ) et al. Optical: NASA/AURA/ STScI . Explanation: Some 3 million light-years distant in nearby spiral galaxy M33 , giant stellar nursery NGC 604 is about 1,300 light-years across, or nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula . ... Intriguingly, NGC 604 itself is divided by a wall of relatively cool gas. ... About APOD | ...

DICKEL, J.R., GREEN, A., YE, T. & MILNE, D.K. "The supernova remnant RCW 103 at radio wavelengths". AJ , 111 , 340-345 (1996). ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N., STAVELEY-SMITH, L., TZIOUMIS, A.K., REYNOLDS, J.E. & KESTEVEN, M.J. "The asymmetric radio remnant of SN 1987A". ... GAENSLER, B.M. "The nature of bilateral supernova remnants". ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N. & GREEN, A.J. "Radio continuum and HI observations of supernova remnant G296.8-00.3". ... ApJ, 543, 840-849 (2000). ...

... STScI-PRC95-11 FOR RELEASE: February 20, 1995 HUBBLE'S CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A SHOCKWAVE FROM A STELLAR EXPLOSION This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." ... Blue shows emission from "doubly ionized" oxygen atoms (atoms that have had two electrons stripped away) produced by the heat behind the shock front. ... This sulfur emission arises well behind the shock front, in gas that has had a chance to cool since the passage of the shock. ...

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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on September 11, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Peer deep into the constellation Sagittarius and you will find a spectacular young star cluster and its associated stellar nursery. ... Posted on September 14, 2012 | ... No Comments Our Image of the Month was released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is a striking panoramic look at a stellar nursery which is [ ] . ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... This Saturday is Valentine s Day and love is in the air for couples around the world...and across the Universe. This picture shows a pair of stars that spend day after day dancing around each other, slowly growing closer. ... The close pair are both white dwarf stars which are tiny and extremely dense stars leftover when a star like the Sun comes to the end of its life. ...

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... Abstract . ... Aaron S. Evans, State University of New York at Stony Brook . An Ultraviolet Survey of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... The Parallax of the Planet Host Star XO-3 . ... The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies . ... Detecting such variations require extemely high signal-to-noise; nonetheless, observations have been extended to a handful of other stars. ... GO 11966: The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies . ... Past weeks: . ...

... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Publications . ... AMI Consortium: Hurley-Walker N. et al., 2011, preprint (arXiv:1103.0947) . ... AMI Consortium: Olamaie M. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4996) . ... AMI Consortium: Shimwell T. W. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4441) . ... AMI Consortium: Davies et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3659) . ... AMI Consortium: Franzen et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3711) . ... AMI Consortium: Rodriguez-Gonzalvez C. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1011.0325) . ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Name . Common Name . ... SNR J0453.6-6829 . ... SNR J0454.4-6713 . ... SNR J0500.0-7007 . DEM L50 . ... SNR J0505.7-6752 . DEM L71 . ... SNR J0505.8-6801 . ... SNR J0509.5-6731 . ... SNR J0509.0-6843 . ... SNR J0519.5-6902 . ... SNR J0522.1-6757 . DEM L152, LHG 31 . ... SNR J0523.0-6753 . SNR in N44 . ... SNR J0525.0-6938 . ... in N19, IKT 2 . ... IKT 23, DEM S125 . ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... space flight . ... Life and death in a star-forming cloud . W44 is the product of a massive star that has reached the end of its life, and all that remains of the stellar behemoth is the spinning core of a neutron star and a supernova remnant. ... W44, located around 10,000 light-years away within a forest of dense star-forming clouds in the constellation Aquila the Eagle, is one of the best examples of a supernova remnant interacting with its parent molecular cloud. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... Elena Seifina and Lev Titarchuk "On the nature of the compact object in SS433: observational evidence of X-ray photon index saturation" 2010, Astrophysical. ... A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko "INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities" 2007, 6th INTEGRAL Workshop, Eds. S. Grebenev, R.A. Sunyaev, p.411 (astro-ph/0610235) . ...

... This is combined emission from all the gas clouds circling the black hole, between 0.1 and 10 light years out. ... These are the expanding clouds of gas left behind when a massive star comes to the end of its life and explodes, producing a supernova. ... Also known as the Veil nebula, a vast and beautiful whispy nebula left over from an exploding star. ... The Crab Nebula (120kb). ... Carbon Star (120kb) Red giant stars, surrounded by clouds or carbon dust. ... 3500 K star (64kb) , like Aldebaran. ...

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