... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. January 19, 1998 . The Hubble 5 Planetary Nebula . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: The Hubble Double Bubble Planetary Nebula is bubbling over with excitement. More mundanely known as Hubble 5 , this bipolar planetary nebula is being created by a hot wind of particles streaming away from the central star system. ... About APOD > . ...

... The Helix Nebula is one of brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. Blue Marble Earth from Suomi NPP . ... This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above -- created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the new Suomi NPP satellite -- shows many stunning details of our home planet. ... Planet Aurora Borealis . ... NGC 3239 and SN 2012A . ... An aurora. ...

... Does the time it takes different methods to create all the elements coincide with the universeт??s accepted age? ... Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Different kinds of stars create elements at different rates, all of which are consistent with the age of the universe. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Registration is FREE and takes only a few seconds to complete. If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

These pages collect together references to many pictures of the solar system that can be found on the Net. ... Since I originally compiled this list the number of relevant images has grown tremendously. ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/ . ... ftp://dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gifs/ . ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.html . http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html . ... http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/ . ... NASA Image Access Homepage (Planetary Photojournal) . ...

... Its companion is a hot, white dwarf, a stellar zombie of a burned-out star. ... Image and illustration files are available on the Internet at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr/ 1999 /32 or via links in http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /latest.html and http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pictures.html Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF) are available at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr/ 1999 /32/pr-photos.html http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr...

Full-Color Mosaic Pictures for CDF-S and HDF-N . ... Here we present full-color images for the first 3 epochs of both the CDF-S and HDF-N, based on the combined mosaic fits files for the b,v,i and z bands. ... The process of producing combined mosaics for each epoch begins with the fully reduced single-epoch tiles, as produced by Anton's MultiDrizzle script running in Harry's automated GOODS pipeline. These are the tiles that are currently available as the GOODS v0.5 science products. ...

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... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

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... The blue bubble is a planetary nebula known as Abell 33. Planetary nebulae are created when an aging star blows away its outer layers of gas in a gigantic cosmic bubble. ... Creating the illusion of the cosmic diamond is a bright star along the rim of the nebula. ... The star is about 700 light years away, that is halfway between Earth and the nebula. ... At the centre of the ring, you can see the remains of the star that created this planetary nebula, now a white dwarf . ...

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... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

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... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...