... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 5 . Emission Nebula IC 1396 . ... Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds . ... The filters actually block out most of the light ... but narrowly transmit wave lengths characteristic of specific glowing atoms in the nebula. ... About APOD | ...

... IC 1396 and Surrounding Starfield . ... 19.08.2009 . ... Credit: Thomas W. Earle Explanation: Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1396, visible on the upper right, mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds . ... This wide angle view also captures surrounding emission and absorption nebula. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: IC 1396 - emission nebula . Publications with words: IC 1396 - emission nebula . ...

... August 6, 1998 . Infrared Horsehead . ... Explanation: This famous cosmic dust cloud was imaged in infrared light by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite. The false-color picture shows the bright infrared emission from dust and molecular gas in part of the Orion star forming region surrounding the Horsehead Nebula . In visible light, the horsehead-shaped dust cloud looks dark against a background of bright glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on March 18, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 11 Comments тАЬIs there life on Mars?тАЭ This must be one of the most-asked questions in astronomy. €аIn this article I am going to look at the historical background to this question. ... Posted on February 28, 2011 | ... 170 Comments Apollo 18 is a SF/Horror movie presented as newly-found film footage taken by the fictional crew of a lost 1970s lunar landing mission.€а The Apollo 18 film uses real NASA [ ]...

... The famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes always has his magnifying glass with him, ready to uncover a barely visible but crucial piece of evidence to solve the case. ... But very occasionally, astronomers stumble across a cosmic phenomena that creates a natural, cosmic magnifying glass and boosts our vision. ... Massive structures, like galaxies and clusters of galaxies, can bend the light from objects behind with their strong gravity. ...

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CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

We estimate the conversion factor relating CO emission to H2 mass, ЮБCO, in five Local Group galaxies that span approximately an order of magnitude in metallicityт?? ... We model the dust mass along the line of sight from infrared (IR) emission and then solve for the ЮБCO that best allows a single gas-to-dust ratio (ЮДGDR) to describe each system. ... These results are consistent with the conversion factor becoming a strong function of metallicity around 12 + log (O/H) ~ 8.4-8.2. ...

... 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. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Cosmic Images is a web site devoted to recent lunar, planetary and deep space images from Kohl Observatory, Lakewood, New York, U.S.A. Last Update August 22, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

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... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . TELESCOPES . ... Each dome contains a telescope with many mirror segments, which combine to give a light collecting area of 10 meters (about 10 yards) across. These are currently the largest light-collecting telescopes in the world, although the European Southern Observatory is building a series of four giant telescopes in Chile which will have a larger collecting area when their light is combined. ...

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... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...