Astronomy Picture of the Day . HH 47: A Young Star Jet Expands . ... A recent spectacular exception to this, however, is the supersonic jet in the star forming Herbig Haro 47. ... Studying how these jets evolve gives clues not only to how the star in HH 47 is forming, but how stars like our Sun formed billions of years ago. ... Publications with keywords: star formation - jet - young stars . Publications with words: star formation - jet - young stars . ... A Particle Beam Jet forms HH 24 . ...

... 2001 September 9 . NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Explanation: Hot blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster . Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina , lies at a distance of about 8000 light years , and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars. ... If true, star formation in this open cluster took at least 15 million years. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy suffers from the `Static Illusion' - because astronomical changes usually occur over intervals much longer than a human lifetime they appear static. This illusion affects our understanding of how astronomical objects work. ... Observations at the 1/10th arcsecond level with HST and near-infrared adaptive optics on ground based telescopes are beginning to create movies of `astronomy in motion'. ... Proto-star HH-30 expanding jet HST.. Young binary, XZ Tau, expanding `bubbles' HST.. ...

... 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. ...

Next: Release of 02 July Up: Old Releases Previous: Version 6.0 - Released Contents . Add output of velocities for sources in the summary file. 2002aug29 RCW. ... RCW 24 Jan 2003. Adding Mark5 for VLBA RCW Jan 2003. Removed Mark2 RCW 6 Feb 2003. ... Put it back 14 Feb 2003. ... Also a messages.txt file has been added to the catalog with text messages that can be sent to the runlog by routine WRTMSG. ... 26 Feb 2003 RCW . ... Add more information about frequencies etc to the OMS file. ...

... Large-scale production and analysis of mock galaxy images. ... Recently I've been involved in a collaboration ( The Illustris Project ) to create and analyze large-scale simulations of galaxy formation. ... Click to see a comparison between the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and a galaxy formation experiment run on a supercomputer: . ... Today, stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust in galaxies, clumps of matter denser than the universal average by roughly 30 orders of magnitude. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . b) Changes in Stars . One of the great discoveries of modern science is that stars (like people) live only a measurable life-time and then die. Although the lives of the stars are enormously longer than the span of a human life, we can learn about the life story of the stars by studying them at many different stages in their life cycle, from birth to death. ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy Foundation . ... Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the latter, how? ... The Milky Way Galaxy has a system of roughly 150 globular clusters, which are all older than 9 billion years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... 2000 September 6 . Emerging Planetary Nebula CRL 618 . ... ESAIC , HST , ESA , NASA . Explanation: CRL 618 may look to some like an Olympian declaring victory. ... Since then it has run out of core material to fuse and so has started to become a planetary nebula . In its current proto-planetary nebula phase, CRL 618 is evolving quickly, expelling hot gasses in complex jets and rings moving outwards faster than 700,000 kilometers per hour. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #16: August 2010 . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... This is an early announcement of changes to be introduced in the ESO observing proposal submission process for Period 87 (proposals to be submitted by 30 September 2010 for observations to be executed between 1 April and 30 September 2011). ... PREVIEW OF PERIOD 87 CALL FOR OBSERVING PROPOSALS: MERGER OF SHORT PROGRAMMES CATEGORY AND CHANGES TO PROPOSAL FORM . ...

... Positioning and Moving the Fish and Poles . ... In the <LAYER> version, the layer containing the form is initially hidden, and a waiting layer is temporarily displayed while the fish images are downloading. ... Defining the Form . ... Here's the code that creates the three pole layers: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Swimming Fish</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <LAYER ID="bluepole"LEFT=160 TOP=150> <IMG SRC=images/bluepole.gif> </LAYER> <LAYER ID="greenpole" LEFT=360 TOP=150> <IMG SRC=images/greenpol.gif> </LAYER> . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

... September 17,2008 New parameter (removescatteredlight) is introduced to enable removing scattered light features by the task omgprep . May, 01, 2008 Modified the call to omgrism plot in order to produce the PostScript file with spectra extraction regions plotted over the grism rotated image. ... July 15, 2004: V1.0.7 Default options for the spectra extraction region are changed from 3 to 6 pixels to avoid the possibility of missing some of the spectra (SPR-3355) . ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

... Instead, new evidence obtained using the UK's Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, spins a different story. Streams of spinning bullets have been discovered. These infrared bullets, moving at prodigious speeds, deposit the spin far away from the birth region'' , stated Armagh Observatory astronomer Dr. Michael Smith. ... Now, using the UK Infrared telescope in Hawaii fitted with sensitive instruments, a team of astronomers have found evidence that the jets of bullets are spinning. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New Model: How Do The Sun And Moon Appear To Move Across The Sky . ... Post Message | ... focused on the Sun and the Moon as they appear from the given location of the Earth surface: . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Science . ... Observations of galaxy clusters are central to the AMI science programme. The AMI Small Array is used to observe already-known clusters with high-sensitivity and resolution, allowing us to extract detailed information about individual clusters and to build up statistics about the cluster population. ... Observing galaxy clusters at 15 GHz is tricky because of the contamination from foreground radio sources, which is where the Large Array comes in! ...