... SN 1006 Supernova Remnant . ... Credit: NASA , ESA , Zolt Levay ( STScI ) Explanation: A new star, likely the brightest supernova in recorded human history, lit up planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD. ... Now known as the SN 1006 supernova remnant , the debris cloud appears to be about 60 light-years across and is understood to represent the remains of a white dwarf star. ... Publications with keywords: supernova - SN type Ia - white dwarf - supernova remnant - cosmic rays . ...

... 2006 July 28 . Four Supernova Remnants . Credit: NASA , CXC , SAO . Explanation: These four panels show x-ray images of expanding cosmic debris clouds, tens of light-years across, in nearby galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud . The supernova remnants (SNRs) are the results of two types of stellar explosions and are arranged in order of apparent age or the time since light from the initial explosion first reached planet Earth. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... VST . ... The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. ... Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments Dim and isolated, the dwarf irregular galaxy WolfтАУLundmarkтАУMelotte (WLM) could be described as an astronomical тАЬliving fossilтАЭ as it seems to have developed since it formed billions of years ago [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ...

DICKEL, J.R., GREEN, A., YE, T. & MILNE, D.K. "The supernova remnant RCW 103 at radio wavelengths". AJ , 111 , 340-345 (1996). ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N., STAVELEY-SMITH, L., TZIOUMIS, A.K., REYNOLDS, J.E. & KESTEVEN, M.J. "The asymmetric radio remnant of SN 1987A". ... GAENSLER, B.M. "The nature of bilateral supernova remnants". ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N. & GREEN, A.J. "Radio continuum and HI observations of supernova remnant G296.8-00.3". ... ApJ, 543, 840-849 (2000). ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:00 A.M. (EDT) June 10, 1999 PHOTO NO.: ... Credit: M. Heydari-Malayeri (Paris Observatory ) and NASA/ESA NOTE TO EDITORS: Image files are available on the Internet at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr/ 1999 /23 or via links in: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /latest.html http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pictures.html Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF) of the release images are available at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / ...

... This is combined emission from all the gas clouds circling the black hole, between 0.1 and 10 light years out. ... These are the expanding clouds of gas left behind when a massive star comes to the end of its life and explodes, producing a supernova. ... Also known as the Veil nebula, a vast and beautiful whispy nebula left over from an exploding star. ... The Crab Nebula (120kb). ... Carbon Star (120kb) Red giant stars, surrounded by clouds or carbon dust. ... 3500 K star (64kb) , like Aldebaran. ...

... X-rays are made up of photons that are emitted from stars, or quasars, or supernovae, the sun, or simply: anything that is undergoing a change either in size or temperature or giving out heat. ... in an X-ray binary star system, in which one normal star's orbit is crossed by a neutron star, when the neutron star by means of gravitational pull takes matter from the normal star X-rays form. ... Artists conception of a normal star (HDE 226868) and a black hole taking matter from the normal star. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Overview of Science Frontiers Panels . All white papers that were submitted . ... The following white papers include contributions from STScI staff members. ... The papers are grouped by (guessed) panel. In several cases, the science topics covered by a white paper are relevant to more than one panel. ... SSE, CFP) SN Science 2010-2020 (D. Andrew Howell; incl. ... GCT) Science Frontiers In Galaxy Evolution: Deep-Wide Surveys (Henry Ferguson; incl. ... Return to STScI decadal home page. ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Supernova light echoes discovered . ... R ecently discovered light echoes can be traced back to three ancient supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), say astronomers. ... Astronomers performed an image analysis on their survey data and matched the discovered light echoes to three young LMC supernova remnants. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

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 . ...

... Star Birth Nebulae . ... The formation of the objects we can see in space, including stars, nebulae , and the objects that are actually collections of other objects (e.g., star clusters and galaxies ), started with these raw materials. Gas makes up roughly 99% of the raw material found in space. ... Dust in space is typically found in the same clouds among the stars where gas is found. ... A galaxy is a collection of many millions or billions of stars, nebulae, and other cosmic objects. ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

... Deep optical CCD image of the LMC. Diffuse Galactic Light is plainly visible in this optical image of the Large Magellanic Cloud as a haze over the entire galaxy. The phenomenon arises from starlight scattering off numerous dust clouds in and above the plane of the LMC's disk to form a faint, galaxy-wide reflection nebula. ... The CCD image above was presumably taken with a special wide-field camera at optical wavelengths. ...

... Spectrosc., 90 , 574-579. [ abstract (in English; ASCII file); paper (in Russian; PS file)] . ... Astronomy Letters, 26 , N 10, 679-690. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PDF file)] . ... 2001) . ... 72 , N 5, 607-612. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ... Scattering and polarization properties of the non-spherical particles. in: Smith W.L., Timofeyev Y.M. (eds.) IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, A.Deepak Publ. (in press) [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ...

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... Take the air we breathe: its molecules have energies around 0.03 ev (electron volt--see energetic particles ) as fast as a cannonball, though still quite a bit slower than the typical satellite. ... The Sun's plasma is much hotter , and that of the magnetosphere is still hotter. ... They are known as cosmic rays or cosmic radiation . ... Actually, the source of cosmic rays is probably not quite as intense, because cosmic ray particles can stay around the galaxy much longer than starlight. ...