... The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Credit Copyright: Marcelo Salemme Explanation: It is the largest and most complex star forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud , a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy, the region 's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula . ... Publications with keywords: Large Magellanic Cloud - LMC - Tarantula Nebula - star formation . ... The Rosette Nebula . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 February 17 . The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Were it placed at the distance of Milky Way's Orion Nebula , only 1,500 light-years distant and the nearest stellar nursery to Earth, it would appear to cover about 30 degrees (60 full moons ) on the sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... 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. ...

The IMF and Star Formation History of the Stellar Clusters in the Vela D Cloud . ... 2005, A , in press . ... M.T. Beltran, J. Brand, R. Cesaroni, F. Fontani, S. Pezzuto, L. Testi, S. Molinari . ... 2005, Proceedings of the IAUS227 "Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics", in press . ... Francesco Palla . ... Podio, L., Bacciotti, F., Nisini, B., Giannini, T., Massi, F., Eisloeffel, J., Ray, T.P. 2005, Ap Lecture Series, "Cores to Clusters", in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

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. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Secret Inner Life of the Orion Nebula . ...

... 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. ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... A dark patch in Orion star formation . ... Located in the constellation Orion the Hunter, the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which is 1,500 light-years away, is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth and contains a treasury of bright nebulae, dark clouds, and young stars. ... Normally, a dark patch such as this would indicate a dense cloud of cosmic dust, obscuring the stars and nebula behind it. ...

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 . ... 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 . ...

... Asher, D.J., Bailey, M.E., Christou, A., McFarland, J. , Muir, M., Rafferty, P., 2002, "Comet Ikeya-Zhang rises for the NAM'', Astronomy & Geophysics, 43, 2.19-2.21. ... Aznar Cuadrado, R., Jeffery, C.S. , 2002, "Physical parameters for subdwarf B stars with composite spectra'', Astronomy & Astrophysics, 385, 131-142. ... Chrysostomou, A., Davis, C., Smith, M.D. , 2002, "High-resolution H observation of Herbig-Haro flows'', Revista Mexicana de Astronom?a y Astrof?sica, 13, 16-20. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Star and Planet Formation Workshop . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... On 14 May 2012 we held a one-day workshop in the ESO Auditorium with the aim of bringing the star and planet formation community from ESO-MPE-USM together. ... J. Ascenso (ESO) Star formation in giant complexes . ... C. Manara (ESO) The role of accretion in the formation of stars and planets: a VLT/X-Shooter perspective . ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 15 April 1857. One mass of about 3 kg . ... Turkmenia, Chardgou region . ... One mass of 71.6 g . ... One mass of 1912 g . ... One mass of 841.6 g . ... Fall 13 September 1937. 15 masses totaling more than 210 kg . ... One mass of 1540 g . ... One mass of 11.335 kg . ... One mass of 2904 g. 2853 g . ... One mass of 115 g . ... One mass of 2788 g . ... One mass of 135 kg . ...

... Early studies of PMS stars focused on T associations, especially Taurus-Auriga. However, one might expect low mass star formation to be different in OB associations. ... He identified Orion OB1a as the stars northwest of the belt. Orion OB1b is composed of the stars near the belt, including the belt stars and Orionis. ... He finds no perceptible distance change within the Orion OB1b association and finds the distance modulus to be 7.8 and 7.9 for Orion OB1a and OB1b respectively. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

HI envelopes around HII regions . ... We have investigated 32 HII regions and around 17 of them we have found the clumped HI envelopes with radial motions. The example of the envelope around HII regions M16 is shown on figure 1. ... The thickness of envelopes is rather great - 0.44 radius, mass are about 6E+4 mass of the Sun, kinetic energies - 10E+50 ergs. ... The model of formation of HI envelope was advanced as outcome of an operation of a summarized stellar wind of stars, exciting HII region. ...

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 . ...

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...