Sentences with phrase «infrared image of the star»

Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star - forming region NGC 2174, as see... view image

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took infrared images of the star.

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Millions of SMC stars have been imaged in the infrared thanks to the VMC, providing an unparalleled view almost unaffected by dust extinction.

The result is this record - breaking image — the biggest infrared image ever taken of the Small Magellanic Cloud — with the whole frame filled with millions of stars.

Space - based infrared telescopes like WISE allow astronomers to see past the hot, bright stars that dominate visible - light images and probe the subtle, cold regions of gas and dust where stars are born.

Now Rahman and his colleagues have identified a knot of 400 massive stars in the cloud's heart in images from the infrared 2 Micron All Sky Survey (Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press).

Infrared images from the Keck and Gemini telescopes reveal three giant planets orbiting counterclockwise around a young star, in a scaled - up version of our solar system.

Hubble's WFC3 camera snapped images in the near - infrared, revealing the spatial distribution of older stars within the actively star - forming galaxies.

PSU postdoctoral researcher Matt Povich showed how a broad swath of dust [infrared imagery, red in image above] obscures many of the biggest, brightest stars in the nebula in visible light.

Combining radio and infrared observations, researchers like Goodman and Arce created high - resolution, multiwavelength images of entire star - forming clouds.

From hard - won infrared images, a story much more complex than Jeans's emerged about the birth of stars and planets.

Young stars in the Orion nebula emerge from hiding in this superposition of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and visible - light images form the Hubble Space Telescope.

«I've been making infrared observations of star - forming regions for more than 25 years,» says Stephen Strom of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, «and the images coming back are utterly incredible.»

This is a composite of infrared (shown as red), visible (green) and ultraviolet (violet) images of the Crab Nebula, with IR enhanced and visible / UV balanced to yield neutral star colors.

On the same day as this announcement, last November 14, came the report of a related breakthrough using the ground - based Gemini and Keck observatories in Hawaii, with which astronomers captured the first infrared image of three planets orbiting a star.

This impressively detailed image of Orion A establishes a new observational foundation for further studies of star and cluster formation and once again highlights the power of the VISTA telescope to image wide areas of sky quickly and deeply in the near - infrared part of the spectrum [5].

Hubble's observations for this image were performed in infrared light, which enabled the telescope to peer through the gas and dust cocooning the newly forming stars and capture a clear view of the HH objects.

Penetrating the obscuring dust, these infrared images themselves offer detailed pictures of star formation within the nebula's collapsing clouds, revealing the presence of newborn massive stars.

This picture of the dramatic nebula around the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse was created from images taken with the VISIR infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

The spider part of «The Spider and the Fly» nebulae, IC 417 abounds in star formation, as seen in this infrared image... view image

A near - infrared color - composite image of the young binary star system, in which the gravitational pull of the fainter, lower - mass companion (seen on the left) drives two beautiful spiral arms in the gas - rich disk of the primary star.

These two images of a huge pillar of star birth demonstrate how observations taken in visible and in infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal dramatically different and complementary views of an object

This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2,700 light - years away in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn).

A team of astronomers has used the Precision Integrated - Optice Near - infrared Imaging ExpeRiment (PIONIER) instrument mounted aboard the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image the massive red giant star.

This series of images show three evolutionary phases of massive star formation, as pictured in infrared images from N...

Infrared images taken in 2002 by the Keck II Observatory in Hawaii showed that another, smaller inner disk may exist around the star in a region the size of our solar system.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet Finder.

An Offner relay projects readily customizable «scenes» (e.g. stars, galaxies, spectra) with very low optical aberration over the full area of a typical optical or near infrared image sensor.

The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near - infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

This pair of visible - light and near - infrared photos from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the giant star N6946 - BH1... view image

Since the initial star images observed in the near - infrared (IR) bands were significantly blurred, we twice moved the secondary mirror for the focal adjustment based on the results of model analyses as well as data analyses of the near - IR images.

A new image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope has revealed some of the oldest stars in the Universe, crowded together like a swarm of bees.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Archival Hubble images, taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), support the idea of twin black holes pushing stars away.