... Credit Copyright: John Vermette Explanation: This interstellar canine is formed of cosmic dust and gas interacting with the energetic light and wind s from hot young stars. ... The characteristic blue glow on the left is dust reflecting light from the bright star S Mon , the bright star just below the top edge of the featured image . ... S Mon is part of a young open cluster of stars, NGC 2264 , located about 2,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn ( Monoceros ). ...

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• The Fox Fur Nebula from CFHT
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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 December 30 . The Fox Fur Nebula . ... Explanation: This interstellar canine is formed of cosmic dust and gas interacting with the energetic light and wind s from hot young stars. The shape, visual texture, and color, combine to give the region the popular name Fox Fur Nebula . ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

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• APOD: 2008 December 25 - Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree
• APOD: 2004 December 28 - Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula
• APOD: 2008 December 26 - The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396

... 2000, ApJ, 537, L49 . ... F. Palla . Invited Talk at the IAU Symposium 200 "The formation of binary stars" eds. R.D. Mathieu and H. Zinnecker (ASP Conf. Ser.) in press . Optical follow-up of ROSAT discovered candidate members of the open cluster Coma Berenices . ... 2000, A , in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press (Sept. ... 2000, ApJ Lett., in press . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

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• APOD: May 22, 1996 - Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
• FIRST LIGHT OF ARNICA AT TNG

... 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) ...

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• AAS 1996 January Meeting Photo Release Images

... In most situations, light helps us to see. But when it comes to looking at the night sky, light actually blocks our vision. ... You should be able to see around 2,500 stars with your naked eyes, but if you live in a big city or town, you probably see less than 10 stars on a normal night! This amazing space picture shows the shining star clusters and swirls of colourful gases of the Carina Nebula: an enormous expanse of gas, dust and stars lying deep in the heart of the Milky Way. ...

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• http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1304/kids/
• Young star lights up reflection nebula IC 2631 | ESO
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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Search Results for ?stellar nursery? Posted on February 21, 2013 | No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on March 2, 2016 | ... Posted on November 12, 2015 | ... Posted on July 28, 2015 | ...

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• Universe | Astronotes - Part 2
• Astronotes | Armagh Planetarium's astronomy news from across the Universe -
• Other Galaxies | Astronotes

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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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. ...

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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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• galaxies, Hubble sequence

... 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. ...

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• Cosmic Christmas to be launched on Friday 4 December at Blackrock Castle
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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Observations taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for the giant radio galaxy B0114-476 reveal a "double-double" structure with two outer diffuse lobes and two inner jet-like features. ...

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• Obscuration by Diffuse Cosmic Dust
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Program Number . ... Proper Motion Survey of Classical and SDSS Local Group Dwarf Galaxies . ... The present program aims to capitalise fully on HST's imaging capabilities, utilising the refurbished Advanced Camera for Surveys and the newly-installed Wide-Field Camera 3 to obtain 17-colour imaging of 25 rich clusters. ... HST has undertaken extensive observations of these systems in past cycles, using ACS at blue and red wavelengths, and WFPC2 and then WFC3 in the ultraviolet and near-infrared. ...

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• Astronomy Magazine, July 1998

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Sky-event alert: Venus, brightest light in the night sky . All month, Earth's sister world appears high and bright in the night sky after sunset for easy viewing. ... January's celestial night-light is Venus. ... More resources from Astronomy.com: . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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... 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. ...

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... 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. ...

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... IC1805 . IC1805 - The "Heart" Nebula . ... The largest and very diffuse part of this image, IC1805, contains large and bright star cluster Melotte 15 at its center. ... This image is a tricolor narrowband image, taken with Ha, OIII, and SII filters. ... Ha: 12.5 hours of 30 minute subs . OIII: 9 hours of 30 minute subs . SII: 10.5 hours of 30 minute subs ...totalling 32 hours . ... Image registration . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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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 . ...

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Participant 5 (P5) ================== Dr. V.P. Tishkovets - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA Dr. N.N. Kiselev - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA P.V. Litvinov - 26 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA S.A. Beletsky - 28 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA The head of the team, Dr. Tishkovets, and Mr. Litvinov made many investigations of light scattering by clusters of particles - analogues of interplanetary dust grains. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...

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Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

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