... Star Factory Messier 17 . ... Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius . ... M17 is also known as the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula. ... Publications with keywords: M 17 - Omega nebula - gas - dust - star formation . Publications with words: M 17 - Omega nebula - gas - dust - star formation . ...

... 2007 August 10 . Star Factory Messier 17 . ... Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius . ... Stellar winds and energetic light from hot, massive stars formed from M17's stock of cosmic gas and dust have slowly carved away at the remaining interstellar material producing the cavernous appearance and undulating shapes. ... About APOD | ...

... 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) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... 1 Comment Looming large in the after dark southern sky in July is the large and overlapping but often overlooked constellations of Ophiuchus and Serpens. ... Continue Reading.. ... 52 Comments Looking up in to the night sky itтАЩs not difficult to see why the ancient Greeks believed that all the stars in the night sky were fixed on a celestial [ ] . ... Posted on September 21, 2012 | ...

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 . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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 / ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... The Sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars that make up a magnificent grouping of stars we call the Milky Way galaxy. ... The other stars are so far away, however, that even at this speed, light from the next nearest star takes 4.3 years to reach us. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... 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. ...

... March 23 - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the explosive birth of stars in a distant galaxy. ... THE GALAXY NGC 1808 is in the direction of the southern constellation Columba, about 40 million light-years away from Earth. ... Mutchler said those supernovae eject dust that shows up as streaming filaments in high-resolution images of NGC 1808. ... Mutchler said the shape of the galaxy may have been altered by the gravitational pull of another galaxy passing nearby; perhaps NGC 1792. ...

... 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. ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

Galactic Wind Shells and High Redshift Radio Galaxies . ... M.Krause . Astronomy & Astrophysics, v.436, 845-851 . Very Light Jets II: Bipolar large scale simulations in King atmospheres [small version] . ... Simulations of Astrophysical Jets in Dense Environments . M.Krause, V.Gaibler & M.Camenzind . in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engeneering '05 eds.: E.Krause, W.J ger & M.Resch. ... M.Krause & M.Camenzind . ... Martin Krause & Paul Alexander . ... Martin Krause . ...

Tired light models invoke a gradual energy loss by photons as they travel through the cosmos to produce the redshift-distance law. ... The tired light model can not produce a blackbody spectrum for the Cosmic Microwave Background without some incredible coincidences. ... So the CMB must have come from a far away part of the Universe, and its photons will thus lose energy by the tired light effect. ... Assume that the CMB starts out as a T = (1+z)*T_o = 2.998 K blackbody, which is the blue curve. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

... Be/X-ray binaries and candidates", Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov, Astron. ... Population Synthesis of Binary Be Stars with Degenerate Companions in the Galaxy", Natalya Raguzova, Astrophysics and Space Science, v.281, p.641-649 (2002) . ... The Evolutionary Evidence for Be/Black Hole Binaries", Natalya V. Raguzova and Vladimir M. Lipunov, The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, IAU Colloquium 175, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 214, edited by Myron A. Smith and Huib F. Henrichs. ... 1998 ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...