... 29.03.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: Martin Pugh Rick Stevenson Explanation: Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing gas in the giant star forming region NGC 6188. ... Joining NGC 6188 on this cosmic canvas, visible toward the lower right, is rare emission nebula NGC 6164 , also created by one of the region's massive O-type stars. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: stars . Publications with words: stars . ... Galaxies, Stars, and Dust . ...

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• XWare > APOD
• Journal "Peremennye Zvezdy"

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about emission nebulae: . ... Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas mingle ominously with dark dust lanes in this close-up of IC 1396 , an active star forming region some 2,000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. ... APOD: 2003 October 22 - The Heart and Soul Nebulas . ... The magnificent emission region, the Orion Nebula (aka M42), lies at the upper right of the picture. ... Index | ...

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• APOD: 2007 September 24 - A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared
• APOD: 2008 December 25 - Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree
• APOD: 2004 November 1 - Spooky Star Forming Region DR 6

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

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• IAU Commission #34 (Interstellar Matter)
• The Music of the Spheres
• Julie Banfield | Astronomer

... Most stars form in clusters, so the simple picture of star formation needs to incorporate the impact that young stars have on their environments, and each other. One region we study is NGC 1333, shown to the left as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This is a тАЬproto-typicalтАЭ star-forming region located тАЬonlyтАЭ 1000 light years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus. ... Copyright 2015 Adele Plunkett. ...

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• Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region | ESO
• LMC Region near the Tarantula Nebula | ESO
• LMC Region near the Tarantula Nebula | ESO United States

Near-infrared images of star forming regions containing masers ( Figure 1 ) . L. Testi, M. Felli, P. Persi, M. Roth . 1997, A&AS, in press . ... C. Kramer, J. Alves, C. Lada, E. Lada, A. Sievers, H. Ungerechts, M. Walmsley . ... 1997, "Star Formation with ISO", Lisboa, June 24-26, ASP Conference Series, eds. J. Yun and R. Liseau . ... R. Cesaroni, M. Felli, L. Testi, C.M. Walmsley, L. Olmi . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

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• APOD: June 25, 1996 - A Star Forming Region in the LMC
• APOD: 2000 December 20 - Sgr A: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center

... 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. ...

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... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

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... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

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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. ...

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• Astronotes | Armagh Planetarium's astronomy news from across the Universe -
• The Lagoon Nebula (M8) reveals its secrets | Astronotes
• HST | Astronotes - Part 4

... Science highlights . Exoplanets Disks 2016 . ... My post on the STScI science blog: "Disk, gaps, and exoplanets - a journey on the wings of a dragonfly" . ... Read here the scientific publication of this work, on the Astrophysical Journal: Banzatti Pontoppidan 2015, ApJ, 809, 167 . Read here a more poetic description on the STScI science blog: "Disk, gaps, and exoplanets - a journey on the wings of a dragonfly" . ... Do exoplanet compositions retain the imprint of large-scale disk processes? ...

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• Spitzer Analysis of H II Region Complexes in the Magellanic Clouds: Determining
• Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206
• The Incidence of Highly Obscured Star-forming Regions in SINGS Galaxies

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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• Astro-2 and the UIT Experiment

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

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• The Tarantula Nebula
• Thesis Abstract
• The Pleiades

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Mad Science
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad News

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

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• Publications
• Sergiy Borysenko
• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies

8th of February 2015 . International Year of Light 2015 . High resolution radio emission from RCW 49 . ... Benaglia et al. (2013) analyse Molonglo 843 MHz and ATCA 5.5 / 9 GHz radio continuum data. They find two radio shells closely matching the Spitzer infrared emission, showing pillars, filaments and a bright bridge. The image shows the ATCA 9 GHz radio continuum emission in red , the Spitzer 3.6 micron emission in blue and the Spitzer 8 micron emission in green . ... today * ATNF | ...

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• The giant HII region NGC 3603
• An investigation of the molecular clouds of the Carina HII region/molecular
• ATNF Colloquium

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... An anarchic region of star formation captured . ... RELATED TOPICS: STARS . The star formation region NGC 6559. ... The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. ...

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• As stars form, magnetic fields influence regions big and small | Astronomy.com
• Chandra X-ray Observatory delivers new insight into formation of star clusters
• Sifting through dust near Orion's Belt | Astronomy.com

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

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• My publications
• Observational data and reduction

... The 1 st Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Siberia (Asian part of Russian Federation) on December 4-11, 2005, a month later than the 10 th IAO in Beijing ). ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2005 may participate in the APAO-2005 (that is a student may participate in the 10 th IAO in Beijing or in the 1 st APAO in Siberia but not in both of these Olympiads). For the 1 st APAO the (age) group of participants to be the same as proposed for IAO since 2006. i.e.: . ...

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• The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad
• The VIII Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad, results
• The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

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• ESLAB 2007
• NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images of the 30 Dor Starburst Cluster