... 2010 August 9 . IRAS 05437+2502: An Enigmatic Star Cloud from Hubble . Credit: ESA , Hubble , R. Sahai ( JPL ), NASA . Explanation: What's lighting up nebula IRAS 05437+2502? ... In general, this ghost-like nebula involves a small star forming region filled with dark dust that was first noted in images taken by the IRAS satellite in infrared light in 1983. ... Small, faint IRAS 05437+2502 spans only 1/18th of a full moon toward the constellation of the Bull ( Taurus ). ... About APOD | ...

... Kepler s SNR from Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer . ... In this tantalizing composite image, x-rays , visible light, and infrared radiation recorded by NASA's astrophysical observatories - the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes - are combined to give a more comprehensive view of the still enigmatic supernova remnant. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: supernova - supernova remnant - kepler - optical - infrared . ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... 2000 August 4 . M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster . ... In fact, only 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, M15 is one of the most densely packed globular star clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy. This stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of M15 shows thousands of individual stars across the central 10 or so light-years of the cluster, also cataloged as NGC 7078. ... Globular star clusters harbor from a hundred thousand up to a million stars and roam the Milky Way halo. ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

WFPC2 . Images: version1 , version2 . Catalogs: Version 1 HDF-S , HDF-N ;Version 2 HDF-S . STIS . ... NICMOS . Images: Camera 3 , V2 of psf-convolved STIS 50CCD on NICMOS . ... Images: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF ; Version2: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . Catalogs: Version2 WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . ... Check the instrument specific technical pages for a description of the data products and the implemented data reduction steps: STIS , WFPC2 , NICMOS , Flanking Fields . ...

... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... People . Posts tagged ?Hubble constant? ... Posted by hlee . My first impression from the 212th AAS meeting is that it?s planned for preparing IYA 2009 and many talks are about current and future project reviews and strategies to reach public (People kept saying to me that winter meetings are more grand with expanded topics). ... Comment . ... ArXiv] 2nd week, Apr. ... 3 Comments . ... Dubbing the week of Dec. 2nd as the first week is hoped to be accepted. ... ArXiv] 1st week, Dec. ...

... 8th August 2000: The VLT images the Comet Linear breakup shower . ... Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) was discovered on 27 September 1999 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Lincoln Laboratory programme LINEAR (Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research), at the White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The LINEAR programme , which uses a 1m prime-focus Cassegrain telescope to search the sky for comets and asteroids passing close to the Earth, is funded by the United States Air Force. ...

... ESO Acronyms . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... This view shows a simulation of how a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy may break apart over the next few years. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

Hubble Family Homes . ... New Albany . ... New Albany High School . ... During the summer Edwin translated Spanish documents for an import company, and that fall he was hired to teach Spanish, physics, and mathematics, and to coach basketball, at New Albany High School. ... Gale E. Christianson has written an authoritative biography -- Edwin Hubble, Mariner of the Nebulae (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1995) -- that documents Hubble's career and describes the year he spent in Louisville. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Hubble sees a galaxy festooned with stellar nurseries . ... The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA and European Space Agencyт??s Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Это первое изображение звезды, отличной от Солнца, полученное космическим телескопом. Звезда, называемая Aльфой Ориона (Бетельгейзе), отмечена крестиком на правом изображении зимнего созвездия Ориона (Охотника). На изображении показана огромная ультрафиолетовая атмосфера звезды с таинственным ярким пятном размером в десять раз большим диаметра Земли и имеющем температуру по-крайней мере на 2000 К больше температуры остальной поверхности звезды. ...

... Jupiter. ... The time in the table is the mean solar time for the Almaty time zone. ... Almaty and Cholpon-Ata are in the same time zone. h 25 h 36 h 00 h 12 h 24 h 36 h 48 h 12 h 48 m (February 28) m m m m m m m m (March 1) m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m 14.92 15.08 15.41 15.44 15.37 15.12 14.92 14.89 14.80 14.78 14.80 14.82 14.85 14.96 14.72 14.72 14.63 14.65 14.77 14.84 15.10 15.43 15.32 15.05 14.90 14.75 14.73 14.70 Bishkek ­ Cholpon-Ata , Kyrgyzstan ...