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  • Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets Of The Crab Pulsar
    * (1) Chandra * (2) HST * (3) - combined - Chandra (left, blue) & Hubble (right, red).

  • The Future Fate of the Milky Way Galaxy:
    * Collision Scenario for the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies
  • Via Lactea simulation
    * the projected dark matter maps of the simulated Milky Way-size halo Via Lactea
  • The speed of the `bullet' in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56
    * time evolution of a simulation model for the bullet cluster.
  • XTE J1550-564: Evolution Of X-Ray Jets
    * XTE J1550-564 : ejection and evolution of the jets
    This animation begins with a view outside of Milky Way and then zooms in on one of the spiral arms to the double-star system XTE J1550-564, which contains a black hole and a normal Sun-like star. As gaseous material is pulled off the companion star onto the black hole, it forms a disk that is heated to millions of degrees. The animation then shows the ejection and evolution of the jets of high-energy particles.
    Animation: CXC/A.Hobart
    *XTE J1550-564 : observations of the jets
    This time-lapse movie made from observations over a four-year period shows the black hole XTE J1550-564 (center), the approaching eastern jet, and the receding western jet (right). In four years the jets moved about two light years from the black hole.
    Credits: NASA/CXC

  • Kollidierende Galaxien wecken schlafende Schwarze Löcher
    Komputersimulation: Phasen der Verschmelzung zweier Galaxien mit zentralen Schwarzen Löchern. Die Sequenz zeigt das Gas zweier kollidierender Spiralgalaxien. Nach der ersten Begegnung entfernen sich diese zunächst wieder, um dann bei einer zweiten Begegnung und anschließenden Verschmelzung zusammenzufallen.
  • SMG 123616.1+621513 - Black Holes in the Early Universe (Chandra)
    Animation: Chandra's X-ray Image of Black Holes in the Early Universe
    This sequence begins with the Chandra Deep Field-North, the deepest X-ray image ever taken. Black holes that are also found in submillimeter observations, indicating active star formation in their host galaxies, are then marked. The view then zooms onto one pair of particularly close black holes (known as SMG 123616.1+621513). Astronomers believe these black holes and their galaxies are orbiting each other and will eventually merge. The sequence ends by showing an animation of this scenario.
    (X-ray image: NASA/CXC/Penn State/D. Alexander et al.)

  • HD 209458b "Osiris": Oxygen and carbon discovered in exoplanet atmosphere ‘blow-off’. ( more)
    Animation: A computer simulation of the evaporating extra-solar planet HD209458b. This simulation shows the hydrogen atoms strewn out into a comet-like tail (blue points). The graphic shows the 9 measurements of lyman alpha flux during the transit of the planet (blue squares). The green line is the simulation.

  • Abell 754 - Verschmelzen von Galaxiehaufen
    Animation: The event details what the scientists are calling the perfect cosmic storm: galaxy clusters that collided like two high-pressure weather fronts and created hurricane-like conditions, tossing galaxies far from their paths and churning shock waves of 100-million-degree gas through intergalactic space. The tiny dots in this artist's concept are galaxies containing thousand million of stars.

  • Multi-wavelength studies of Kepler's remnant
    Animation: Views from Chandra, Hubble & Spitzer

  • Do Globular Clusters Spit Out X-Ray Stars?
    Animation: A diagram of our Milky Way galaxy shows how Scorpius X-1 — the brightest X-ray "star" in the night sky — moves through the Milky Way. Sco X-1's convoluted trajectory (here colored red) may attest to its having been cast off by a globular cluster in our galaxy's halo. The Sun's nearly circular orbit around the galactic center is shown in yellow.

  • M16 HST: Pillars of Creation in a star-forming region
    Animation obtained from HST images of M16, simulating the approach to the star forming EGGs in the Eagle Nebula.

  • Spitzer - animations (Staub)
    When Worlds Collide | Swirling Rings of Dust

  • SGR1806-20 | (More: )
    Cosmic Explosion is the Brightest in Recorded History (Swift)

  • Der Fornax Galaxienhaufen (more: The Impending Destruction of NGC 1427A in Fornax)
    A zoom into the Fornax cluster.

  • GRB Fireball Model
    Animation: A computer simulates a jet of gamma-rays protruding from a dying star. The jet is created from the rotating material just outside the newly formed black hole. The jet will produce a GRB once it escapes the stellar atmosphere.
    The movie shows a three-dimensional simulation of relativistic jets from collapsars breaking out of the star. Black and blue represent lower density, white and yellow higher density. The calculations were performed on SEABORG at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (NERSC).
    Courtesy of Zhang, Woosley & Heger
  • GRB 031203 - a Substandard Gamma-Ray Burst
    a stunning animation of the expanding light echo. "Schrei in der Kathedrale" - XMM-Newton's X-ray EPIC camera shows the expanding rings caused by a flash of X-rays scattered by dust in our Galaxy
  • GRB 030329 - Rosetta Stone Decodes Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery
    A computer animation of a gamma-ray burst/supernovae viewed from a distance.
    Credit: NASA/Skyworks Digital
  • A Wolf-Rayet star in its final hours
    death cry of a Wolf-Rayet star
    Courtesy of NASA/HETE

  • Fusion: If you could see gamma-rays, the night sky would look strange and unfamiliar.
    Gamma-ray Burst animation: Today, these gamma-ray bursts, which happen at least once a day, are seen to last for fractions of a second to minutes, popping off like cosmic flashbulbs from unexpected directions, flickering, and then fading after briefly dominating the gamma-ray sky.

  • »die Mäuse« alias NGC 4676 - Computeranimationen

  • The Planetary Nebula Show

  • Black Hole Limits
    Animation
    Chandra X-ray Image and Illustrations of the Lockman Hole
    This animation illustrates the activity surrounding a black hole. While matter that has passed the black hole's "event horizon" (point of no return) cannot be seen, material swirling outside this threshold is accelerated to millions of degrees and radiates in X-rays. At the end of the animation, the black hole is shown shrouded in a cloud of gas and dust, obscuring it from most angles at wavelengths other than the X-rays picked up by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

  • Environment of SN 1987A
    SN 1987A Animation
    The animation illustrates the events following the supernova 1987A outburst. The blue ring is previously observed material ejected from the star thousands of years ago. The expanding orange and yellow shell is multimillion degree, X-ray emitting gas produced by the explosion. Portions of the blue ring light up when struck by the X-ray shell. (Animation: NASA/CXC/D.Berry)

  • Explosive Nukleosynthese in Sternen
    SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION
    When a massive star explodes, it creates a shell of hot gas that glows brightly in X-rays. These X-rays reveal the dynamics of the explosion. (Animation: CXC/D.Berry & A.Hobart)

  • Cas A - Sternenleiche schwebt in Eisenwolken
    Three Chandra Views of Cassiopeia A
    This sequence shows three different sets Chandra observations of Cassiopeia A. The first image is Chandra's "First Light" image, which was released in August 1999 as the observatory's first major science image. This 5,000-second-long observation then dissolves into another image created from Chandra that contained data from 50,000 seconds of X-ray data released in 2002. Finally, the new one-million-second observation of Cassiopeia A is seen, revealing spectacular new detail and complexity to the supernova remnant. (Credit: NASA/CXC/GSFC/U.Hwang et al.)

    SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION - with Dissolve to Cassiopeia A
    This animation of a supernova explosion dissolves into the Chandra First Light Image, Cassiopeia A. (Animation: CXC/D.Berry & A.Hobart)

  • Vela SNR
    A zoom into the southern constellation Vela to reveal the magnificent remnants of the Pencil Nebula.

  • 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of an Event Horizon
    Death Spiral of matter as it falls beyond the event horizon. (credit: Greg Bacon / STScI)
  • Simulations Reveal Surprising News about Black Holes
    & Computer reveals that life around black holes is turbulent and violent (credit: J. Krolik)

  • 3C58 mit 65 ms - Pulsar J0205+6449
    Multi-wavelength Look at 3C58
    This sequence compares Chandra's X-ray image of 3C58 with the views seen by optical and radio telescopes. The intricate X-ray loops in the Chandra image and the features in the radio images of 3C58 extend a dozen light years from the pulsar, likely representing the complex magnetic field structure there. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane et al.; Optical: DSS; Radio: NCSU/S.Reynolds)
  • Vergleich 3C58–Objekt mit Krebs–Pulsar
    Comparison of 3C58 and the Crab Nebula
    In this series of X-ray images, the strong similarities between the center of 3C58 and the Crab Nebula pulsar -- one of the most famous objects in astronomy -- are shown. The 3C58 pulsar, the Crab Nebula pulsar, and a growing list of other pulsars offer dramatic proof that strong electromagnetic fields around rapidly rotating neutron stars are powerful generators of both high-energy particles and magnetic fields. (Credit: 3C58: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane et al.; Crab: NASA/CXC/ASU/J.Hester et al.)

  • GALEX Provides Ultraviolet Goodies
    This movie taken by NASA'S Galaxy Evolution Explorer show one of the largest flares, or star eruptions, ever recorded at ultraviolet wavelengths. The star, called GJ 3685A, just happened to be in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's field of view while the telescope was busy observing galaxies. As the movie demonstrates, the seemingly serene star suddenly exploded once, then even more intensely a second time, pouring out in total about one million times more energy than a typical flare from our Sun. The second blast of light constituted an increase in brightness by a factor of at least 10,000.
    Flares are huge explosions of energy stemming from a single location on a star's surface. They are caused by the brief destruction of a star's magnetic fields. Many types of stars experience them, though old, small, rapidly rotating "red dwarfs" like GJ 3685A tend to flare more frequently and dramatically. These stars, called flare stars, can experience powerful eruptions as often as every few hours. Younger stars, in general, also erupt more often. One of the reasons astronomers study flare stars is to gain a better picture and history of flare events taking place on the Sun.
    A preliminary analysis of the GJ 3685A flare shows that the mechanisms underlying stellar eruptions may be more complex than previously believed. Evidence for the two most popular flare theories was found.
    Though this movie has been sped up (the actual flare lasted about 20 minutes), time-resolved data exist for each one-hundreth of a second. These observations were taken at 2 p.m. Pacific time, April 24, 2004.
    In the still image, the time sequence of the panels is upper left, upper right, lower left and lower right.
    The circular and linear features that appear below and to the right of GJ 3685A during the flare event are detector artifacts caused by the extreme brightness of the flare.
    Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    Surprise Ultraviolet Party in the Sky
    Galaxies aren't the only objects filling up the view of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Since its launch in 2003, the space telescope -- originally designed to observe galaxies across the universe in ultraviolet light -- has discovered a festive sky blinking with flaring and erupting stars, as well as streaking asteroids, satellites and space debris. A group of six streaking objects -- the identities of which remain unknown -- can be seen here flying across the telescope's sight in this sped-up movie.
    The two brightest objects appear to perform a sharp turn then travel in the reverse direction. This illusion is most likely the result of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer overtaking the objects as it orbits around Earth.
    Careful inspection reveals four additional faint objects with the same timing and behavior. These faint objects are easiest to see during the retrograde portion of their paths. Three appear between the two bright sources, and one is above them, near the edge of the field of view.
    These bonus objects are being collected in to public catalogues for other astronomers to study.
    Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech




*H. Heintzmann ( Eintrag vom 14.1.2005   — Nr: — ) *