... Cone Nebula Close Up . ... A well-known example, the Cone Nebula within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264, was captured in this close-up view from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys . ... The Cone Nebula's reddish veil is produced by glowing hydrogen gas. ... Publications with keywords: Cone nebula - NGC 2264 - star formation - Hubble space telescope . Publications with words: Cone nebula - NGC 2264 - star formation - Hubble space telescope . ...

... 2002 May 3 . Cone Nebula Close-Up . Credit: ACS Science Engineering Team , NASA . ... A well-known example, the Cone Nebula within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264, was captured in this close-up view from the Hubble Space Telescope's newest camera . While the Cone Nebula , about 2,500 light-years away in Monoceros , is around 7 light-years long, the region pictured here surrounding the cone's blunted head is a mere 2.5 light-years across. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... 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. ...

... 722.1360B Spatially Extended Brackett Gamma Emission in the Environments of Young Stars By Beck, Tracy L., Bary, Jeffery S., McGregor, Peter J. 2010, ApJ, 722, 1360 (5) 32. ... 969M A Wide-Field Narrowband Optical Survey of the Braid Nebula Cygnus OB7 By Magakian, Tigran Yu.Nikogossian, Elena H.; Soo; Khanzadyan, Tigran; Movsessian, Tigran; Smith, Michael Davis, Chris J.; Beck, Tracy L.; Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H.; Star Formation Region in Aspin, Colin; Pyo, TaeD.; ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... 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. ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

... 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'' . ...

... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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. ...

... 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." ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Hubble sees a galaxy festooned with stellar nurseries . ... The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA and European Space Agencyт??s Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... A language centre has helped move a group of Russian academics a step closer to realising their ambition of studying for a prestigious research degree in the UK. The scholars from Samara State Aerospace University lacked the English language skills needed to study at Glynd?r University for a PhD, one of the highest academic qualifications. ... This has seen Glynd?r University Professor Richard Day, Professor of Composites, visit Russia to deliver guest lectures to students at Samara. ...

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 . ...

... 2011: . Detection of galaxies with large peculiar velocities . ... New galaxies with polar rings . ... The new catalog contains 275 galaxies. ... Radio galaxy RC J0311+0507, a unique object of the early Universe . ... The estimation of the stellar population age in the host galaxy via the multicolor photometry (BTA) and new infrared data (UKIRT, 2011), amounting to 0.8 Gyr results in the moment of its formation when the universe was about 0.5 milliard years old (z~10). ... Archive . ...

... Aznar Cuadrado, R., Jeffery, C.S. , 2001, ``Physical parameters of sdB stars from spectral energy distributions'', A&A, 368, 994-1005. ... Banerjee, D., O'Shea, E., Doyle, J.G. , Goossens, M., 2001, ``The nature of network oscillations'', A&A, 371, 1137-1149. ... Chambers, J.E. , 2001, ``Comparing planetary accretion in two and three dimensions'', Icarus, 149, 262-276. ... Chambers, J.E. , 2001, ``Making more terrestrial planets'', Icarus, 152, 205-224. ...

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 . ...

Define region . ... Area/perimeter . Define a region of interest on a graph or graphs. Select the region, there are 5. ... Inside polygon . Points inside a closed, non-intersecting polygon are considered inside the region. ... In the polygonal region type, define the region by successive clicks with the left mouse button, use the right mouse button to register the polygon. ... Select the region to use. ... Click on Area or Perimeter and use the mouse to define the region. ...

... SOC-SPR-2454. Version 1.44 - 2003-05-03 (UL) ------------ + brought in line with selectlib-4.65 Version 1.43 - 2003-03-13 (UL) ------------ + some transparent gcc-2.95.3 backward-compatibility changes Version 1.42 - 2003-03-05 (UL) ------------ + closed SPR 2403: How to change the ds9 that xmmselect uses Ds9 constructur (used by xmmselect) now makes use of SAS_IMAGEVIEWER environment variable that can also contain an absolute path the ds9 executable ...