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.
Not exact matches
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.