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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

VISTA reveals secret of the Unicorn

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The image is not a new infrared device to ESO Telescope reveals extraordinary investigation VISTA horizontal Glowing dark clouds will be paid to the gas, and the young stars of the Unicorn (Unicorn) within the system. A star is to comprise an area called Yksisarvisen R2 is embedded in a huge dark cloud. Region, almost completely obscured by Interstellar dust visible light seen in the light of the fact, but it is a great choice for your stay in infrared.

Active Stellar Nursery is hidden in a dark cloud plenty of massive molecules and dust Yksisarvisen within the system. Even if it appears in close more familiar with the Orion Nebula is actually almost twice as far away from the sky of the earth around 2700 light years distance.Visible in the light of the massive grouping creates a beautiful collection of hot stars kaasusumuineen If the reflection is scattered dark blue starlight, parts of the molecular cloud layers sumuiset. However, the majority of new-born massive stars remain hidden, such as thick in the interstellar dust is used strong ultraviolet and visible light.

This gorgeous infrared image taken of the Paranal Observatory ESO: Northern Chile, the visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA [1], eso0949) penetrates the curtain is dark cosmic dust and reveal an astonishing detail dispose, finds and filaments sculpted dusty Interstellar substances fierce winds and hot young particle stars of the radiation emitted by.

"When this picture first, so only I said" Wow! " I was surprised to see all of the dust Streamers so clearly Yksisarvisen R2 cluster, as well as the Jets very young stars of the embedded objects. Jim Emerson Queen Mary, University of London and Vista-Director of the Consortium is large, the richness of VISTA images showed exciting detail of "says.

A huge field of vision, a large mirror and sensitive camera VISTA is ideal for a wide range of high quality infrared images of the deep, large areas of airspace, taking into account such as Yksisarvisen R2-region. VISTA's field of vision of a width of approximately 80 light-years correspond to the date of entry into force of this distance.Since the dust is largely transparent to infrared wavelengths, many young stars, which is not able to view a list of visible light images of Massive these stars occurred. are less than ten million years old.

The new image is created for the risk weighting of exposures to near infrared spectrum of three different sections. Molecular clouds, such as Yksisarvisen R2 at low temperatures is available and relatively high Eläintiheydet allow molecules form, such as hydrogen, which, under certain conditions, for onward transmission to vigorously with the aid of the near infrared. Many of the pink and Red structures that appear in the VISTA image are probably because the outflow of young stars from molecular hydrogen glows.

Monoceros R2 is dense core, to the extent that is packaged in a very massive young stars of the bright infrared sources, which are usually still-born massive stars surround the dusty disks in the cluster can contain up to two light-years.In this region is in the middle of the picture, where the stars of the much larger concentration is visible in close inspection and if visibly pinkish properties indicate the emissions are likely to be the molecular hydrogen.

In the middle of the picture Rightmost bright clouds is NGC 2170, brightest reflection nebula, in this region. Visible light kaasusumuineen appear bright, pale blue Islands dark ocean, Hurja infrared factories are revealed in their interior entisöintiä, if hundreds of massive Stars will become.NGC 2170 appears through a small Telescope, and the pattern was discovered by William Herschel from England in 1784.

The form in the process, which lasts, as a general rule, a few million years and which takes place in large Interstellar clouds of gas and particulate pollutants from internal combustion engines, light-years hundreds of miles in the interstellar dust. [1] [2] because the stars is visible light, infrared and radio-opaque comments are crucial to the understanding of the early stages of stellar evolution.By combining the southern sky to systematically collect some 300 GB VISTA night, will give the regions, which will be examined in more detail according to the very Large Telescope (VLT), Atacama large one-/submillimeter array (ALMA), and, in the future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), a huge amount of information.

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[1] Its 4.1 m in front of the primary mirror, VISTA is the world's largest research telescope and is equipped with the largest infrared camera, all of the Telescope with 67 million pixels in size.It is dedicated to the sky investigations, which started already in 2010.The peak of Cerro Paranal, northern Chile, the home of the ESO VLT is located next to the VISTA share exceptional observing conditions. Alan Atacama-Desert, kuivimmista Web sites over the surface of the Earth, to be paid to the quality of the airspace is noted for building a conduit from the Cerro Armazones is located only 20 km away from the Cerro Paranal, has recently selected as the site in the future, the E-ELT.

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ESO, the European Southern Observatory is first and foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization, Europe and the world's most productive Astronomical Observatory .14-Countries supported: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [1] [2] THE ESO is engaged in the design, construction and powerful country observing facilities was to make important scientific discoveries activities focused on an ambitious programme, including by promoting THE ESO plays. [1] [2] and a leading role in organizing the Astronomical research TO THE ESO operates three unique. world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla Paranal, and Chajnantor. ESO operates Paranal, Very Large Telescope, the most advanced visible light Astronomical Observatory and Vista, the world's largest research telescope. ESO is a revolutionary Astronomical Telescope ALMA, the largest Astronomical project exists in the European partner OF ESO plans currently 42.-metre drop test to bring about the European Extremely Large optical/infrared Telescope, near-E-ELT, which shall become the "world's largest eye sky".

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