... 2005 December 11 . R136: The Massive Stars of 30 Doradus . ... NASA . Explanation: In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. These stars, known as the star cluster R136 , and part of the surrounding nebula are captured here in this gorgeous visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , F. Paresce ( INAF-IASF ), R. O'Connell ( U. Virginia ), the HST WFC3 Science Oversight Committee Explanation: In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus , also known as the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars. ... Star Formation in the Tarantula Nebula . ...

... 1999, A , 350, 917 . ... Shock heated NH3 in a molecular jet associated with a high-mass young star . ... 1999, ApJL, in press . ... 1999, A , in press . ... 1999, in "The First Stars", eds. A. Weiss, T. Abel and M. Norman, in press . The formation of primordial stars . ... 1999, in "Star Formation 1999", ed. T. Nakamoto, in press . ... T. Jacq, A. Baudry, C.M. Walmsley, P. Caselli . ... 1999, ApJ, in press . ... Star Formation . ... Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... 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. ...

... An investigation of the molecular clouds of the Carina HII region/molecular cloud complex - First results . ... The Carina Nebula is an extremely bright southern HII region embedded in a giant molecular cloud and contains some of the most massive stars known in our Galaxy. ... Here we present the results of the initial molecular cloud observations which were made by observing the 12CO(1-0) emission with the Mopra antenna . ... HII regions -- ISM: clouds, kinematics and dynamics -- stars: formation ....

There is often dust associated with ionized regions. Compact HII regions usually have associated dust from a molecular cloud in which the massive star is being "born". ... For such stars the dust is not produced by the star, and a variety of dust features are observed. The planetary nebulae also usually have associated dust from the previous stage of evolution where they were either carbon stars or M-type giants. ... The feature near 11.5 microns in the IC 418 spectrum may be due to SiC dust. ...

... 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. ...

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! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Catalog . Publications . ... Koposov, S., Glushkova, E., Zolotukhin, I. 2008: Automated search for Galactic star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... BibTeX entry ] . ... Glushkova, E.V., Zabolotskikh, M.V., Koposov, S.E., Spiridonova, O.I, Vlasyuk, V.V., Rastorguev, A. S. 2010: Photometry of the poorly studied galactic open star clusters King 13, King 18, King 19, King 20, NGC 136, and NGC 7245 , Astronomy Letters, 36, 75 . ...

... This large circular H II (partially ionized hydrogen gas) region is a combination of NGC 2237, NGC 2238, NGC 2239, NGC 2246 and the central star cluster of NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50).This star forming region is also known as Caldwell 49 and is located in the constellation of Monoceros (Unicorn) in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way. ... The nebula is roughly 5000 light years away and is about 130 light years in diameter. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Turbulent region around the ring-shaped nebula DEM L 299 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way system. ... The coloured rings seen near some of the brighter stars in the field result from light reflections in the telescope optics. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... 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) . ...

... This image shows clearly the 3-D structure of this star formation region: a large cavity, created by the radiation pressure from new-born stars located in the brightest area of the image, lies within a huge cloud of dust and gas. Identified as a truly indepedent star cluster, NGC 1980 is associated with this well-studied star formation region, around the brightest star seen at the bottom of this image, Iota Ori. ...

... 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" . ...

... Date : 26/07/2009 . Lieu : Soria, Spain . MatУ?riel de prise de vue : GSO Reflector 200mm f/4, Canon 350D, 21x300s@800iso . Commentaires : The Trifid Nebula (also known as Messier 20 and NGC6514) is an H II region with a remarkable collection of open cluster, emission nebula (the lower, red portion), reflection nebula (the upper, blue portion) and dark nebula (the septation within the emission nebula causing the trifid appearance, also designated Barnard 85). www.astronomica.es . ...

CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . 1989AJ.. ... Title: The use of IRAS data to define H II regions Authors: HUGHES, V. A.; MACLEOD, G. C. Affiliation: AB(Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) Journal: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 97, March 1989, p. 786-800. ... 786H A total of 2298 IR H II regions in the IRAS Point Source Catalog are identified to a confidence level of 77 percent. ... Criteria are from Hughes McLeod (1989). of HII regions in IRAS catalog: . ... 0.0 . ...