Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about globular clusters: . ... Explanation: Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way . Back in the old days , back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy . ... APOD: 2002 July 30 - A Star Cluster in Motion . ... Globular star clusters normally roam the halo of the Milky Way, ancient relics of our galaxy's formative years. ... Index | ... About APOD | ...

... NGC 4449: Close up of a Small Galaxy . ... But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , about 12 million light-years distant. ... NGC 4449 is a member of a group of galaxies found in the constellation Canes Venatici. Interactions with the nearby galaxies are thought to have influenced star formation in NGC 4449. ... Publications with keywords: NGC 4449 - star formation - irregular galaxy . Publications with words: NGC 4449 - star formation - irregular galaxy . ...

... June 25, 1996 . A Star Forming Region in the LMC . ... Explanation: Stars sometimes form in colorful ways. Pictured above is a small region in the nearby LMC galaxy where stars are forming. ... It may develop a strong wind which pushes away nearby gas ; it may be so hot and intense that emitted light boils away nearby dust and gas , and it may be so massive that it soon goes supernova and catapults its elements back to the interstellar medium . ... About APOD | ... Specific rights apply. ...

... Star Atlas . Product Reviews . ... Airborne observatory views star-forming region W40 . ... A new image from NASAт??s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) provides the highest resolution mid-infrared image taken to date of the massive star formation region in our galaxy known as W40. ... This mid-infrared image of the W40 star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy was captured recently by the FORCAST instrument on the 100-inch telescope aboard the SOFIA flying observatory. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . Travel and Contacts . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Colour composite image of the central part of the stellar cluster RCW 38, around the young, massive star IRS2, taken with the NACO adaptive optics instrument attached to ESO's Very Large Telescope. Thanks to this image, astronomers were able to discover that IRS2 is in fact a twin system composed of two almost equally massive stars. ...

... Abstract . ... Harald Ebeling, University of Hawaii . ... Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . ... UV Imaging to Determine the Location of Residual Star Formation in Galaxies Recently Arrived on the Red Sequence . ... Observations show that almost all well-defined cluster systems at low and moderate redshift have a significant population of elliptical galaxies which have red colours, indicative of old stellar populations and minimal current star formation. ...