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ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images HOME INDEX SEARCH HELP NEWS This area of the ESO Photo Gallery contains astronomical photos from ESO Telescopes with sufficient image resolution for professional-quality reproduction. At this moment, photos are available from instruments at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal, as well as from the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) and the SOFI infrared ...

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THE FORMATION OF COMMON-ENVELOPE, PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE BINARY STARS J.E. TOHLINE, J.E. CAZES, AND H.S. COHL Louisiana State University Department of Physics & Astronomy, 202 Nicholson Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001 U.S.A. 1. Introduction Recent observational investigations of the frequency of occurrence of pre-main-sequence binary stars have reinforced earlier suspicions that ''binary formation ...

The Celestial Sphere - rendered maps of the heavens. Click to view Body Click to download Data Source Creator Owner Horiz. Size Vert. Size Resol. (pix/deg) Tycho star map 2.9M tif 250k tif Eros Seal Caltech/JPL 2880 720 1440 360 2 (max: 2) From the Tycho star catalog, 1 million stars. Hipparcos star map 670k tif 150k tif Eros Seal Caltech/JPL 2880 720 1440 360 2 (max: 2) From the Hipparcos star ...

Pc/gifstar: Astronomy gifs of stars etc 00index.txt 1867 Aug 1 07:22 Descriptions of the files in the gifstar directory 9808w.gif 148939 Feb 10 1998 Bright knot in Supernova 1987A ring, Hubble, 10-Feb-98 betapicb.gif 91113 Jan 30 1996 Warped Disk around star Beta Pictoris, Hubble, 17-Jan-96 bss19.gif 189167 Nov 1 1997 Blue straggles in Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae, 29-Oct-97 btlgeuse.gif 93168 ...

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Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability) and more.