... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 October 29 . The Red Spider Planetary Nebula . ... The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. ... The Red Spider Nebula lies toward the constellation of the Archer ( Sagittarius ). ... About APOD | ...

... 3.10.2001 . ... October 2001 . ... 2001 2002 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: M 97 - NGC 6781 - NGC 7139 - Abell 39 - NGC 6772 - NGC 2438 - NGC 7009 - NGC 6543 - NGC 3242 - NGC 1535 - planetary nebula . Publications with words: M 97 - NGC 6781 - NGC 7139 - Abell 39 - NGC 6772 - NGC 2438 - NGC 7009 - NGC 6543 - NGC 3242 - NGC 1535 - planetary nebula . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... post-merger model for a He+He white dwarf binary. The dashed lines show the evolutionary track during accretion and the solid lines show the post-merger evolution. ... The cross symbols show the R CrB stars from Jeffery et al. (2011), the circle symbols shows the EHe stars from Jeffery et al. (2011) and the dots show the He sdO stars from Hirsch (2009). ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... STScI-PRC96-05 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTO REVEALS STELLAR DEATH PROCESS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. ... The NGC 7027 photograph is a composite of two Hubble images, taken in visible and infrared light, and is shown in "pseudo-color." Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... We are investigating how this interaction effects galaxy evolution in general as well as the feedback effect of the radio source on its host galaxy and AGN. ... One direct observational manifestation of this interaction is the existence of extended regions of emission-line gas which show a clear spatial relationship to the radio source itself. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... We Fourier analysed Hubble Telescope Crab pulsar data obtained with the High Speed Photometer in October 1993. A weak modulation at frequency Hz is detected. We found a strong correlation between this result and the Fourier transform result of stroboscopic Crab pulsar data obtained in December 1994 at the 1.82m telescope of Asiago observatory (University of Padua, Italy). ... We found that both data show a weak modulation at the period of 60 seconds. ... The corresponding frequency is Hz . ...

BSc thesis "Metallicity Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies", 1997, Univ. of Tokyo . MSc thesis "Low-Metallicity Inhibition of Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution", 1999, Univ. of Tokyo . PhD thesis "Formation and Chemodynamical Evolution of Galaxies", 2002, Univ. of Tokyo . ... Cosmic SFRs, chemical evolution, mass-dependent galactic winds, and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies are reproduced (Kobayashi, Springel, White 06). ... What are dwarf galaxies? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment Gorgeous! ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 24, 2010 | ... 1 Comment That amazing instrument, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary since it was placed in orbit. ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Star Life Cycles . ... An animation of a star's life ending in a supernova explosion. to view again reload page . ... Short animation movie with captions of a stars life cycle up to the point where the star could either explode and form a supernova or collapse into a white dwarf or a neutron star. ... The stars live for millions of years, burning hydrogen in their cores. ... In this picture, on the right side, the star ends its life in a huge supernova explosion scattering matter all over the place. ...

... My research interests include the compositions of extrasolar rocky objects and the fate of planetary systems around white dwarfs. ... This process often creates a hot dust disk very close to the white dwarf. Measuring the atmospheric compositions of externally-polluted white dwarfs can provide unique information about the composition of those extraterrestrial material. ... Circumstellar Environment around White Dwarfs . About 4% white dwarfs display excess infrared radiation from a dust disk. ...

home education > activities . ... Quick math activity that asks students to calculate scale models of a binary star system with a black hole in it. [h] . ... Students use a radiometer and a light bulb with a dimmer switch to make connections between the temperature, color, and radiation output of a star. ... This demonstration, similar to the above, from the Exploratorium Snack-book of science activities, lets students demonstrate how molecules scatter light and change the colors of the beam. [m,h] . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... 172 ] Briefly, the count rate at the detector from a source at a redshift z is . ... Figure 55 shows the ``Green functions'' for the double compact binary merging rate   evolution assuming no collapse anisotropy. ... Another way that diverse peculiarities in the - distribution induced by the sources evolution could arise is connected with a possible non-monotonic character of the star formation rate in galaxies. ... 22 ] Figure  56 shows two-dimensional cuts through the parameter space. ...

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 . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... For over 30 years, itтАЩs been our passion to create the finest telescopes available for the astronomy enthusiast. ... Events . Meade Events . ... Event Calendar . Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show (NEAF) . ... Meade is happy to announce that we will be attending the Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show, a.k.a. NEAF, one of the largest astronomy trade shows in the United States. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...