... Dust Mountains in the Carina Nebula . ... JHU ) Explanation: Bright young stars sometimes sculpt picturesque dust mountains soon after being born. Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner. Such is the case in NGC 3324 , a star forming region near the edge of NGC 3372 , the energetic and expansive Carina Nebula. ... NGC 3372: The Great Nebula in Carina . ...

... 2002 August 14 . Giant Emission Nebula NGC 3603 in Infrared . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is the largest region of glowing gas in our Milky Way galaxy . Spanning over 20 light years across, the giant emission nebula (HII region) is home to a massive star cluster , thick dust pillars , and a star about to explode . NGC 3603 was captured above in infrared light by a Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) telescope. ... About APOD | ...

... STScI-PRC98-11A STARING INTO THE WINDS OF DESTRUCTION: HST/NICMOS IMAGES OF THE PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 7027 The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has captured a glimpse of a brief stage in the burnout of NGC 7027, a medium-mass star like our sun. ... The material settles into a wind of gas and dust blowing away from the dying star. ... During this phase, intense ultraviolet radiation from the central star lights up a region of gas surrounding it. ...

We present observations at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8, 24, 70, and 160 ЮМm of NGC 205, the dwarf elliptical companion of M31, obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. ... On the basis of our mid-/far-infrared flux density measurements alone, we derive a total dust mass estimate on the order of 3.2У?104 Msolar, mainly at a temperature of ~20 K. The gas mass associated with this component matches the predicted mass returned by the dying stars from the last burst of star formation in NGC 205 (~0.5 Gyr ago). ...

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. ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: The interplay of massive stars, gas and dust in very nearby starbursts . ... The complex interplay between regions of massive star formation and their surroundings is a determining component of galaxy evolution. Winds of massive stars and the resulting supernova explosions inject mechanical energy into the interstellar medium, redistributing gas within a galaxy. ... Return to list of thesis topics . ...

Starbust galaxies represent those galaxies which are currently experiencing a phase of active star formation which is substantially higher than the time average star formation rate. ... A technical discussion of galactic winds and baryonic blowout in the case of low mass galaxies can be found here To investigate this possibility we have selected two extreme starburst galaxies with astounding levels of H-alpha emission. ... The first Fabry-Perot (FP) image shows just the very center of the galaxy. ...

... 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. ...

... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Is emission nebula NGC 6334 a mini starburst region? A team has identified a region in our galaxy that may deserve the starburst title and may help explain what leads to the furious production of new stars in this type of region. ... This region NGC 6334 (commonly called the Cat's Paw Nebula) is rich in gas and dust. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Australia Telescope Compact Array Radio Imaging of the Proplyd-like Objects in the Giant HII Region NGC 3603'' . M?cke, A., Koribalski, B.S. , Moffat, A.F.J., Corcoran, M.F., Stevens, I.R. 2002, ApJ 571, 366 . ... Brenneman, L., Corcoran, M.F., Moffat, A.F.J., Marchenko, S.V., Ptak, A., Skalkowski, G., Mushotzky, R., Stevens, I.R., Mueke, A., Koribalski, B.S. , et al. ... Physical Properties of visual counterparts to X-ray sources in the giant HII region NGC 3603'' . ...

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 . ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

... An analysis on new observational data taken with the MPFS and SCORPIO spectrographs indicates that we are dealing with the "galactic wind": the gas is blown above the galactic plane with the characteristic velocity of about 130km/s. The gas outflow is caused by a combined action of winds from the supernovae and young massive stars located in the galaxy's circumnuclear region. ... The most probable hypothesis is that the accretion of intergalactic gas clouds is feeding their star formation. ...

... This image shows a 7th magnitude star cluster, it's reflection nebula, an extended diffuse nebula and Barnard Dark Nebulae. The bright star at the top is omicron Persei (Atik). The cluster next to Atik is a star forming region with as many as 300 stars ranging from the brightest at B5 to low mass brown dwarfs. ... The obscuring dark areas are the Barnard Dark Nebulae 1 through 4. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... 18 GHz of the continuum emission from the reportedly anomalous . region 4" of the nearby galaxy NGC 6946. We find that the emission . ... 8.5 GHz, but has a spectrum from 15-18 GHz consistent with optically . ... In combination . ... dust component is slightly preferred above those which possess more . well established emission mechanisms. ... http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/publications/2010/N6946.pdf . ... Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... Low resolution, slitless spectral images were obtained at the Loiano Observatory in the wavelength window 3300­6420 ° in order to identify in A, extragalactic ob jects targets displaying the most prominent features that characterise the spectrum of bright hot stars, WR and Luminous Blue Variables (LBV), and of nebular regions as well. ... The two bright H ii regions NGC 5455 and NGC 5461 are clearly identified by the H and [O iii] lines. the current observatory's instrumental set­up. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... The Fiery Birth of Chondrules . ... Chondrules are among the oldest objects in the solar system, dating back to the period when the Sun formed" says Anders Meibom of Stanford University, coauthor of a new paper that examines the chondrules in two chondrites to learn more about how the planets in our solar system formed. ... Lightning zaps and shock waves briefly heated isolated regions of the disk, partially melting the dust. ...

... Properties of Dust Grains in Planetary Nebulae - I. The Ionized Region of NGC 6445 . ... Based on this model, we show from depletions in the gas phase elements that little grain destruction can have occurred in the ionized region of NGC 6445. ... The most likely conclusion is that grains are residing inside the ionized region of NGC 6445 and that the low temperature and flux of the grain emission are caused by the low luminosity of the central star and the low optical depth of the grains. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Find 1749. One mass of 687 kg . ... Fall 09 February 1929. 11 masses totaling 3738 g, the largest is 2128 g . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1986. 3 masses totaling about 25 kg . ... Fall 24 March 1933. 75 masses totaling 3-4 kg . ... Fall 29 July 1935. 5 masses totaling 37.35 kg, the largest is 23 kg . ... Fall 23 May 1938. 4 masses totaling 127.5 g . ... Fall 02 October 1933. 10 masses totaling 3.4 kg . ...

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