... Credit Copyright: Leonardo Julio ( Astronomia Pampeana ) Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis , the Southern Crown. Probably less than 500 light-years away and effectively blocking light from more distant, background stars in the Milky Way , the densest part of the dust cloud is about 8 light-years long. ... Publications with keywords: Corona Australis - dust cloud - stars . ...

... 2012 September 27 . Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis , the Southern Crown. ... The smaller yellowish nebula (NGC 6729) surrounds young variable star R Coronae Australis . ... While NGC 6723 appears to be part of the group, it actually lies nearly 30,000 light-years away, far beyond the Corona Australis dust clouds . ... About APOD | ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... 1 Comment Located 12 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, Messier 82 is sometimes called the тАШCigar GalaxyтАЩ from its shape. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 21, 2012 | ... 1 Comment The Universe is 13.75 billion years old.It is easy to say, but what does that mean in Earthly terms?Let?s squeeze the whole history of the Universe into a year! ...

... STScI-PRC96-38a GIANT "TWISTERS" AND STAR WISPS IN THE LAGOON NEBULA This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" -- eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) -- in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. ... Other hot stars, also present in the nebula, are ionizing the extended optical nebulosity. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

... 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) . ...

... Research . ... Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds | ... Made by B. Lawton (2010). Karl D. Gordon (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . Brian Babler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) . ... Lynn R. Carlson (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) . ... Margaret Meixner (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . ... 16) Gordon, K. D., (26 coauthors), Lawton, B., et al. 2012, in preparation; Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity, Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). ...

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These images reveal light from a massive stellar outburst in the Carina Nebula reflecting off dust clouds surrounding a behemoth double-star system. The color image at left shows the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region located 7,500 light-years from Earth. The massive double-star system Eta Carinae resides near the top of the image. ... The three black-and-white images at right show light from the eruption illuminating dust clouds near the doomed star system as it moves through them. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

... How is it described Origins of polarized light How is it important to astrophysics How is it measured 3 Polarized waves: linear 4 Thursday , 30 September 2010 Polarized waves: linear 4 Thursday , 30 September 2010 ... at any angle 5 Thursday , 30 September 2010 or Circular - LCP, RCP Right 6 Thursday , 30 September 2010 or Circular - LCP, RCP Right 6 Thursday , 30 ... Sky light is polarized, maximally at 90 degrees to the sun. ...

... The Milky Way - and the lights of CoonabarabrтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: The Milky Way - and the lights of Coonabarabran - behind the dome of the ANU 40-inch telescope. Description: The dome of the UK Schmidt telescope is just to the right of the town lights. ... The Milky Way - and the lights of Coonabarabran - behind the dome of the ANU 40-inch telescope. The dome of the UK Schmidt telescope is just to the right of the town lights. ...

ALBUM: planets Artist: Eloy Album: Planets Transcription in progress, e-mail corrections to datta@cs.uwp.edu DRAFT .1 @ SONG : Introduction Instrumental @ SONG : On The Verge Of Darkening Lights warming rays are shadowed by threatning clouds while hissing winds create the oddest sounds linked to the power and speed of a beam. ion is cast to this strange and fake scene forced into isolation ...

Next: Status of the BIMA Image Pipeline . ... We describe all the steps of the standard reduction including per pixel error propagation: Bias correction, treatment of bad pixels, flatfielding, and filtering of cosmic ray events. ... We build difference images via image convolution with a technique called OIS (optimal image subtraction, Alard & Lupton 1998), proceed with PSF-fitting, relative photometry on all pixels and finally apply an automatic detection of variable sources. ...

... Three day radio-astronomical forecast of the proton activity of the Sun: The figure shows multiwave radio emission scans - graphs of the distribution of intensity I and circular polarization V across the solar disk, obtained at RATAN-600. ... According to this criterion, for a proton flare to arise, the flux of radio emission must be sufficiently high at short wavelengths (blue color scans) and should increase with time compared to the general intensity. ... More about the solar activity . ...