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Hubble Snaps Leo Triplet Heavyweight - Messier 66

... following filters: 814W (near infrared), 555W (green) and H-alpha (showing the glowing of the hydrogen gas). They have been combined so ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2010 - 5:57pm - 0 attachments

NGC-4945: A Lot Like Our Milky Way ...

... in this image taken with data in five bands (B, V, R, H-alpha and S II) with the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla. The field ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2009 - 3:00am - 0 attachments

Mythbusters Of Stellar Birth

... by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and H-alpha observations made with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ... measured two tracers of star formation, ultraviolet and H-alpha emissions, in 103 galaxies using NASA's GALEX satellite and the 1.5-m ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2009 - 9:18pm - 0 attachments

RCW 38: Did Our Solar System Originate In A Supernovae Hell?

... using data collected through four filters (B, V, R and H-alpha). The field of view is 30 arcminutes.  Credit: ESO ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2009 - 4:37pm - 0 attachments

NGC 55 And NGC 7793 - Two Terrific Views Into The Sculptor Constellation

... The image is based on data obtained through B, V, and H-alpha filters. North is up, East to the left. The field of view is 30 ... The image is based on data obtained through B, V, I and H-alpha filters.  Credit: ESO ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2009 - 9:43am - 0 attachments

NGC 2818 - A Nebula Within A Cluster Inside A Compass

... the assigned colors are: F658N ([N II]) red F656N (H-alpha) green F502N ([O III]) blue The colors in the image represent a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2009 - 6:48pm - 0 attachments

NGC 2264 - The Cosmic Christmas Tree Star Cluster Gets A New Image

... data taken through four different filters (B, V, R and H-alpha) with the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, 2400 m high ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2008 - 9:14am - 0 attachments

V458 Vulpeculae - A Binary Star Explosion Inside A Nebula

The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team of researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters , predicts that the combined m ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2008 - 12:52pm - 0 attachments

RCW120 - A Glowing Stellar Nursery Near Constellation Scorpius

... and producing the characteristic red glow of so-called H-alpha emission .  As this ionized region expands into space, the ... of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2008 - 11:27am - 0 attachments

Gum 29 - Amazing Intricacies Of A Vast Stellar Nursery

... telescope through four different filters (B, V, R, and H-alpha), shows the amazing intricacies of the vast stellar nursery Gum 29. At ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2008 - 1:12am - 0 attachments