... The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... The region's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula , except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 180,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado . ... The spindly arms of the Tarantula nebula surround NGC 2070 , a star cluster that contains some of the brightest, most massive stars known. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: star cluster - star formation ....

... 2008 November 11 . The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Explanation: First cataloged as a star, 30 Doradus is actually an immense star forming region in nearby galaxy The Large Magellanic Cloud . The region's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula , except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 180,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

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 . ...

... 1) A Multiwavelength Study of Tadpole Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Straughn, A., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 814, 97. 2) The Rate of Core Collapse Supernovae to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS and CLASH Supernova Surveys, Strolger, L., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 813, 93. ... 18) "Resolved Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Star Formation in Disks at High Redshift", Elmegreen, D.M., Elmegreen, B.G., Ravindranath, S., Coe, D.A., 2007, ApJ, 658, 763. ...

... 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. ...

The IMF and Star Formation History of the Stellar Clusters in the Vela D Cloud . ... 2005, A , in press . ... M.T. Beltran, J. Brand, R. Cesaroni, F. Fontani, S. Pezzuto, L. Testi, S. Molinari . ... 2005, Proceedings of the IAUS227 "Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics", in press . ... Francesco Palla . ... Podio, L., Bacciotti, F., Nisini, B., Giannini, T., Massi, F., Eisloeffel, J., Ray, T.P. 2005, Ap Lecture Series, "Cores to Clusters", in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... 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. ...

... Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Compact Stellar Systems in the Fornax Cluster: Super-massive Star Clusters or Extremely Compact Dwarf Galaxies? ... We suggest that these objects are either super-massive star clusters (intra-cluster globular clusters or tidally stripped nuclei of dwarf galaxies) or a new type of low-luminosity compact elliptical dwarf (``M32-type'') galaxy. ... Keywords: galaxies: star clusters -- galaxies: dwarf -- galaxies: formation . ... Properties of the compact objects ...

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. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... Science . ... The goal is to bring together two communitities: the one working on star formation (mostly galactic) and the one working on the formation of young massive clusters (mostly extra-galactic). We will link galactic with extra-galactic work, optical/NIR techniques with sub-mm/mm/radio ones, the formation of stars with the one of massive star clusters - observations and theory. ... Coordinated by Marina Rejkuba (abstract) . ... How did star formation proceed in Globular Clusters? ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A. 2005, Astronomy Astrophysics 442, 587 - 596 . ... Vink, J.S., Harries, T.J., Drew, J.E. 2005, Astronomy Astrophysics 430, 213 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter A. 2002, Astronomy Astrophysics, 393, 543 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 2001, Astronomy Astrophysics, 369, 574--588 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 2000, Astronomy Astrophysics, 362, 295--309 . ... Vink, J.S., de Koter, A., Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. 1999, Astronomy Astrophysics, 350, 181--196...

Our early publications since 1990 till 1995 year . ... 7.Yu.I.Izotov, N.G.Guseva, V.A.Lipovetsky, A.Yu.Kniazev, J.A. Stepanian, 1990, Nature, 343, 238, Unusual low heavy-element abundance found in the blue compact galaxy SBS 0335-052 8.Yu.I.Izotov, N.G.Guseva, V.A.Lipovetsky, A.Yu,Kniazev, J.A.Stepanian, 1990, Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation, 1990, Kluwer Academic Publisher, p.235-240. ... New blue compact dwarf galaxies with low heavy-element abundances. ... 1993. ...

... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead of a Sun-like star? ... Stars of all masses form from dense clumps within exceptionally cold molecular clouds. ... Massive stars tend to form at the centers of high-mass reservoirs of gas. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ...

... The survey uses HARP, a new submillimetre heterodyne array at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), to map the J = 3 - 2 rotational transitions of CO and its isotopologues 13CO and C18O across 630 sq. arcmin of the Perseus molecular cloud, in four regions: NGC1333, IC348, L1448 and L1455. ... A new catalogue of 850 micron SCUBA clumps is identified using two automated algorithms, clfind and GaussClumps. ... These data are one of the largest surveys of molecular outflows ever undertaken. ...

... Kopylov, A.I., Kopylova, F.G. "Structure of galaxy groups and clusters and measurement of their masses", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Peculiar motions of galaxy clusters and groups in the Hercules and Leo supercluster regions", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Leo supercluster", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major supercluster", . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... A glorious cosmic butterffly imaged by the HST (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This dramatic image looks like some vast cosmic eruption, and that impression is entirely correct. ... Designated NGC 6302 and often called the Butterfly Nebula, this is an example of a planetary nebula. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix . The first version of the Scenario Machine was aimed especially at the simulation of massive binary star evolution. ... First, there is a large class of intermediate mass binaries (say, consisting initially of 8 + 5 solar masses) that can also produce NS and thus lead to the formation of a bright X-ray source. ... Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix Mike E. Prokhorov . ...