1. APOD: 2001 December 25 - Star Forming Region Hubble V
... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 December 25 . Star Forming Region Hubble-V . ... Hubble Heritage Team , NASA . ... Inspection of NGC 6822 shows several bright star groups, including two dubbed Hubble-X and Hubble-V. Pictured above , the Hubble Space Telescope has resolved Hubble V into the energetic stars that are lighting up the surrounding gas. ... About APOD | ...
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2. Star Forming Region Hubble V
... Star Forming Region Hubble V . ... 25.12.2001 . ... Hubble Heritage Team , NASA Explanation: How did stars form in the early universe? Astronomers are gaining insight by studying NGC 6822 , a nearby galaxy classified as irregular by modern standards but appearing more typical of galaxies billions of years ago . ... Publications with keywords: Hubble V - NGC 6822 - star formation . Publications with words: Hubble V - NGC 6822 - star formation . ... NGC 2174: Stars Versus Mountains . ...
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http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1173873 -- 15.9 -- 30.12.2001
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3. Infrared Imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud Star-forming Region Henize 206
Henize 206 is a region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud of the approximate scale of the Orion belt and sword. Our Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) optical images show that the region is experiencing very energetic star formation. ... A few percent of the total flux from this brightest region in Henize 206 emanates from infrared peaks of subparsec scale. ...
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4. The Tarantula 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. ...
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http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/30dor/ -- 4.1 -- 19.08.2004
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5. Arcetri Star-Formation Group Publications
... 1999, A , 350, 917 . ... Shock heated NH3 in a molecular jet associated with a high-mass young star . ... 1999, ApJL, in press . ... 1999, A , in press . ... 1999, in "The First Stars", eds. A. Weiss, T. Abel and M. Norman, in press . The formation of primordial stars . ... 1999, in "Star Formation 1999", ed. T. Nakamoto, in press . ... T. Jacq, A. Baudry, C.M. Walmsley, P. Caselli . ... 1999, ApJ, in press . ... Star Formation . ... Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri . ... Star Formation Group . ...
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http://www.arcetri.astro.it/science/starform/publ1999.htm -- 11.6 -- 21.06.2001
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6. The Music of the Spheres
... 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. ...
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http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/library/index.html -- 7.5 -- 02.10.2012
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7. An investigation of the molecular clouds of the Carina HII region/molecular
... An investigation of the molecular clouds of the Carina HII region/molecular cloud complex - First results . ... The Carina Nebula is an extremely bright southern HII region embedded in a giant molecular cloud and contains some of the most massive stars known in our Galaxy. ... Here we present the results of the initial molecular cloud observations which were made by observing the 12CO(1-0) emission with the Mopra antenna . ... HII regions -- ISM: clouds, kinematics and dynamics -- stars: formation ....
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http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/15_2/brooks/paper/index.html -- 52.3 -- 08.04.2016
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8. Astronomy HyperText Book: Interstellar Medium
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 . ...
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http://zebu.uoregon.edu/textbook/ism.html -- 4.2 -- 23.01.1998
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9. AdelePlunkettAstro
... PhD Yale University, Astronomy, 2015 . ... MS, MPhil Yale University, Astronomy, 2011 . ... Plunkett, Adele L. ; Arce, Hctor G.; Corder, Stuartt A.; Dunham, Michael M.; Mardones, Diego; Garay, Guido 2014, ApJ, 803, 22, Assessing molecular outflows and turbulence in the protostellar cluster Serpens South . ... Department of Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile April 2013 . ... Yale-University of Chile Meeting, New Haven, CT December 2011 . ...
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10. Near-IR Imaging of Star-forming Regions with IRAF
... 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, . ...
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http://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass96/chans2.html -- 7.4 -- 23.06.1998
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11. A Spectacular View of the Lagoon Nebula | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope. (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...
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http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/a-spectacular-view-of-the-lagoon-nebula.html -- 45.4 -- 09.04.2016
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12. GRB follow-up team
... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...
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http://mavr.sao.ru/hq/grb/conf/conf.html -- 16.2 -- 09.04.2016
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http://www.sao.ru/hq/grb/conf/conf.html -- 16.2 -- 10.04.2016
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13. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...
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http://www.badastronomy.com/bitesize/jetplane.html -- 21.9 -- 09.04.2016
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14. Chandra Supernova Remnants Catalog - Instrumental Artifacts
True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...
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15. M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer
Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . ... How do Stars Form? ... Other Work and Activities . ... The interaction of young stars with their surroundings are accentuated within Herbig-Haro Objects, where streams and `bullets' of ejected gas impact on the ambient molecular clouds. ... The astrophysical jets are spectacular. ... Michael Smith and collaborators have searched for, and found, the first evidence of rotation within the jets. ...
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http://star.arm.ac.uk/annrep/annrep99/node14.html -- 10.4 -- 05.05.2000
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16. An anarchic region of star formation captured | Astronomy.com
... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... An anarchic region of star formation captured . ... RELATED TOPICS: STARS . The star formation region NGC 6559. ... The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. ...
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17. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/24/2012 23:40:10 . Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) . The larger of the 2 Magellanic Clouds, this dwarf galaxy spans an area of 650-minutes x 550-minutes (10-degrees) and is 160,000 light years away on the border of the constellations of Dorado and Mensa. ... The LMC was the host galaxy to supernova 1987A. 7 images x 27-second subframes, Total= 3 minutes 9-seconds. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
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18. Sunspots and active regions December 09, 2015
... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...
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19. Scientific activity
... Moscow, Russia . ... March-October 2000 . ... Gusev A.S. Multicolor CCD Photometry of Six Lenticular and Spiral Galaxies. ... Gusev A.S., Park M.-G. Structure and stellar population of ringed barred galaxy NGC 2336 // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, V.410, P.117-129. ... Gusev A.S. Photometric Properties of Bars in Galaxies // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.579-591. ... Gusev A.S. BVRI CCD Photometry of Pecular Galaxies NGC 5605 and NGC 5665 // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.569-578. ...
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http://lnfm1.sai.msu.ru/~gusev/eng/science.html -- 18.8 -- 30.03.2006
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20. ASP: The Fiery Birth of Chondrules
... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... The Fiery Birth of Chondrules . ... Chondrules are among the oldest objects in the solar system, dating back to the period when the Sun formed" says Anders Meibom of Stanford University, coauthor of a new paper that examines the chondrules in two chondrites to learn more about how the planets in our solar system formed. ... Lightning zaps and shock waves briefly heated isolated regions of the disk, partially melting the dust. ...
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http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/30_06/chondrules.html -- 19.5 -- 20.04.2012
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