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For Valentine's Day, Capture The Heart Of The Rosette Nebula

... is based on data obtained as part of the INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane. Image credit: Nick Wright, Keele ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2018 - 7:43pm - 0 attachments

A 'matryoshka' In The Interstellar Medium

As if it were one of the known Russian dolls, a group of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, (IAC) has found the first known case of three supernova remnants one inside the other. Using the programme BUBBLY, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2016 - 11:38am - 0 attachments

Hubble Nets A Cosmic Tadpole

... portion of the spectrum, including ultraviolet, optical, H-alpha, and infrared emission. Together, they paint a beautifully detailed ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2016 - 7:23am - 0 attachments

A Violent Wind Blown From The Heart Of A Galaxy Tells The Tale Of A Merger

... and red colors are attributed to the B-band, R-band, and H-alpha (emission line from ionized hydrogen gas) images, respectively. The ... an emission line produced by ionized hydrogen (called the H-alpha emission line). It allowed them to study the structure of the ionized ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2016 - 10:54am - 0 attachments

Orion Through The Camera — But Which Type?

Recently on Countryfile (BBC) we saw a presenter and a photographer together in the Pennines, the mountains that form the ‘backbone’ of England.  The photographer makes a living by taking spectacular scenes with a high-end camera and all diff ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 10 2015 - 11:42am - 0 attachments

Cosmology in context: A summary of big bang, inflationary cosmology.

The technical details of Big Bang, inflationary cosmology, and selected alternative theories are on offer.  Popular accounts of the big bang theory, cosmic inflation, and the creation of the universe often leave out details a consumer of science wo ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 4 2013 - 10:45am - 0 attachments

Sharpless 2-292: Seagull Nebula Gets Its Wide Field Imager Close-Up

... One such prominent transition (called hydrogen alpha, or H-alpha) leads to the strong red color. Light from the hot blue-white ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2012 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

The Finest Mirrors Ever Made, And Their 10-Minute Mission

... for HI-C. "We will be able to look through a secondary H-alpha telescope on the instrument in real time and re-point the main ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2012 - 9:14pm - 0 attachments

PN G054.2-03.4: Necklace Nebula Gets A Close Up

... colors are: F502N ([O III]), F438W (B) blue F656N (H-alpha), F555W (V) green F658N ([N II]), and F814W (I) red.   Credit: ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2011 - 10:59am - 0 attachments

M51 - A New Look In The Whirlpool Galaxy

... glow of ionized hydrogen. Images taken in the so-called H-alpha color reveal where the gas is ionized by newborn stars. For this ... we offer the M51 image in two versions: true color and H-alpha enhanced. The true-color image has been obtained gathering ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2010 - 12:12pm - 0 attachments