... 2004 October 20 . NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules . ... Explanation: NGC 281 is a busy workshop of star formation. Prominent features include a small open cluster of stars, a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula , large lanes of obscuring gas and dust , and dense knots of dust and gas in which stars may still be forming. The open cluster of stars IC 1590 visible around the center has formed only in the last few million years. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit: ESO Explanation: The large majestic Lagoon Nebula is home for many young stars and hot gas. ... The greater nebula, also known as M8 and NGC 6523, is named "Lagoon" for the band of dust seen to the left of the open cluster's center. A bright knot of gas and dust in the nebula 's center is known as the Hourglass Nebula . ... Publications with keywords: M 8 - Lagoon Nebula - GigaGalaxy Zoom Project . Publications with words: M 8 - Lagoon Nebula - GigaGalaxy Zoom Project . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

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 . ...

... STScI-PRC99-34a GETTING TO THE HEART OF A GALAXY This collage of images in visible and infrared light reveals how the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is feeding material into its central region, igniting massive star birth and probably causing its bulge of stars to grow. The material also is fueling a black hole in the galaxy's core. ... In the infrared image at lower right, the Hubble telescope penetrates the dust seen in the WFPC2 picture to reveal more clusters of young stars. ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

... 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) ...

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 . ...

... More than 100 circumstellar gas clumps with ionized rims have been detected by HST studies of the Orion Nebula H II region (O'Dell & Wong 1996). Seven additional objects appear as dark oval silhouettes seen against background nebula light (McCaughrean & O'Dell 1996); these are very likely to be protoplanetary disks seen in absorption. ... Eight fields were observed in H and I-band continuum in the nearby H II regions NGC 2024, NGC 2264, and S155. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... The Pacman Nebula gets some teeth . The т??teethт?? are pillars of gas and dust where new stars may be forming. ... To visible-light telescopes, the star-forming cloud (NGC 281) appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the Pacman Nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted in 1980. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Architecture at ESO . Collaborations with ESO . ESO Acronyms . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... This sequence compares views of the region around the dark cloud Barnard 86 in infrared and visible light. ... In the infrared the cloud is more transparent and less prominent and the bright star cluster NGC 6520 becomes almost invisible. ...

... 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. ...

Publication lists for papers which include ATNF data are available on the web at : . ... ApJ, 554, L91-L94 (2001). ... CAMILO, F., BELL, J.F., MANCHESTER, R.N., LYNE, A.G., POSSENTI, A., KRAMER, M., KASPI, V.M., STAIRS, I.H., D'AMICO, N., HOBBS, G., GOTTHELF, E.V. & GAENSLER, B.M. "PSR J1016-5857: a young radio pulsar with possible supernova remnant, X-ray and gamma-ray associations". ... MNRAS, 325, 1346-1352 (2001). ... MNRAS, 325, 817-825 (2001). ... MNRAS, 325, 1411-1430 (2001). ... 2000). ...

... The interstar media . The interstar media includes the rarefied substance (gas and dust) electromagnetic radiation, the space beams, neutrino and other kinds of materia which fill the space (see the circulation of gas and dust in the Universe ). ... The nebula of the Alter . ... The gas-dust nebulas. ... The gas nebulas galaxical are shining due to the transformation of the shot waved (ultraviolet) radiation of the very hot stars located in the nebula or near it into the visible light. ...

... 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. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

Feb 28 2016 Cepheus - The King IC 455 5mm TV VF,VS,OVAL, NND ,R=F Galaxy S0 Nov 16 2012 18 IC 469 5mm TV Galaxy SAB(rs)ab: VF,VS,OVAL,VEXT, NND ,AV2,R=F Nov 16 2012 18 IC 1396 19mmW 25mmPL Open Cluster II3mn **STARS,BRIGHT, NICE DUST LANES,R=G DECENT NIGHT - MEGASTAR CONTROL Sep 07 2005 8 May 22 2004 8 NGC 40 7.5mmW 7.5mmW H58-4 MB,R,R=G Planetary Neb 3b+3 F,VS,R,VSMBM,*12SP Nov 11 2009 12 Oct 06 ... 13 Jul 24 2006 8" Aug 21 2004 8" PB,CS,R=F CLEAR SKIES - H.H. LITE. ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...