Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... B.J. Mochejska , J. Kaluzny ( CAMK ), 1m Swope Telescope Explanation: This color "picture" of globular star cluster M55 may not look like any star cluster you've ever seen. ... In the picture, a Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD), M55's individual stars are represented as dots whose color indicates relative temperature, red (cool) to blue (hot). ... Publications with keywords: color - magnitude - diagram - cmd - m55 - star - stellar evolution . ...

... 2001 February 23 . M55: Color Magnitude Diagram . ... Explanation: This color "picture" of globular star cluster M55 may not look like any star cluster you've ever seen. ... In the picture, a Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD), M55's individual stars are represented as dots whose color indicates relative temperature, red (cool) to blue (hot). ... M55's stars were formed at the same time and at first were all located along the main sequence by mass, lower mass stars at the lower right. ... About APOD | ...

... S. Ortolani . ... Since 1993, we have started a long-term program aimed at obtaining near-infrared images for a wide sample of highly reddened globular clusters and the related stellar fields in the galactic bulge, from the brightest part of the CMD down to the main sequence. ... Here we present combined ESO/IRAC-2 and HST/WFPC2 observations for the two metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6528 ( ) and NGC 6553 ( ). ... Keywords: globular clusters, infrared, galactic bulge . ...

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... Stellar cinders . Born-again stars . ... Heavyweight Stars . ... What will happen inside the Sun and why? ... These are questions about "stellar evolution", the history of stars as they are transformed by nuclear processes deep inside. ... Most of what we know about stellar evolution comes from computer models of stars. ... We learn about the evolution of high-mass stars from HR diagrams of young galactic open clusters, and the evolution of low-mass metal-poor stars from old globular clusters. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Astronomers have detected a new faint companion to the star HD 3651, already known to host a planet. ... The separations (top) and position angles (bottom) of the companion with respect to the host star is shown here over a three year period. ... Related releases: . ...

Giant stars are rare because . ... In a color-magnitude diagram of a star cluster, the blue end of the main sequence is useful for defining the age of the cluster because . a) blue stars are not affected by extinction and reddening by dust. b) stars just slightly brighter and redder are just now evolving off the main sequence to become giants. c) older, metal-poor stars are blue. d) the hottest stars are the oldest stars in a cluster. ... 2) Some idea. 3) Good idea. ...

ESO PR Photo 18b/00 . ... Caption : Images of two of the novae in NGC 1316 that were discovered during the observational programme described in this Press Release. ... In particular, no less than four novae were detected in a single giant galaxy within only 11 days . ... Moreover, the discovery of four novae in one galaxy in the Fornax cluster was possible with only 3 hours of observing time per filter. ... ESO Press Information is available on the WWW at . http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/ . ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

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