... AR9077: Solar Magnetic Arcade . ... M19 appears to be a typical globular cluster of stars - except for its shape. ... This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective -- our view from planet Earth looking straight into what is actually a barrel-shaped cloud of gas shrugged off by a dying central star. ... The Crab Nebula in Blue and White . ... The Crab Nebula formed from a star that was seen to explode in a supernova about 1000 years ago. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 2000 July 19 . Globular Cluster M19 . ... Explanation: M19 appears to be a typical globular cluster of stars - except for its shape. ... In fact, M19 is the most aspherical globular cluster of the approximately 160 known orbiting the center of our Milky Way Galaxy . M19 lies about 27,000 light-years away, measures about 60 light-years across, and is home to over 100,000 stars. The cluster can be found with binoculars towards the constellation of Ophiuchus . ... About APOD | ...

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Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

Why areNuclear Star Clusters interesting? 1) Many -- if not all ­ nuclear star clusters appear to be young, or at least have a young population of stars. ... 3) If nuclear clusters indeed form in the galaxy center, their impact on the dynamics of stars and gas in the central region of the host galaxy needs to be understood, because it can potentially influence the galaxy morphology. For example, it has been suggested that nuclear clusters can destroy stellar bars and thus form galaxy bulges. ...

... Posts tagged ?globular cluster? ... Posted by hlee . Someone emailed me for globular cluster data sets I used in a proceeding paper, which was about how to determine the multi-modality (multiple populations) based on well known and new information criteria without binning the luminosity functions. ... On the other hand, obtaining globular cluster data sets was easy because of available data archives such as VizieR . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , CHASC , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon , Stars | ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... This dramatic image depicts Omega Centauri, one of 200 or so globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... Swarms of tightly packed stars, numbering in the thousands to low millions, globular clusters are cosmic fossils, relics of the early times of our galaxy. Omega Centauri may actually be the core of a smaller galaxy ripped apart and assimilated by our own Milky Way in the distant past. ...

Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... David P. Stern Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics NASA . ... Alfv?n's Theory and Electric Fields . ... The debate between proponents of a static corona, Parker's solar wind theory, and an alternative "solar breeze" theory of Chamberlai n [1960, 1961; Dessler 1967] was only settled by observations from space. ... Rapidly spreading plasma clouds produced by solar flares, like those envisioned by Chapman and Ferraro, are sometimes superposed on the solar wind flow. ...

... Takuya Akahori "Faraday Rotation Measure due to the Intergalactic Magnetic Field" . Shae Brown "Cross-correlation of ATLAS and Spitzer-SWIRE Surveys: Probing intergalactic magnetic fields" . Roger Clay "Using low energy cosmic rays to investigate local galactic magnetic fields" . Roland Crocker "A new lower limit on the magnetic field around the Galactic Centre" . ... JinLin Han "Rotation measures of pulsars and radio sources for Galactic magnetic fields" . ...

... David P. Stern Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics NASA . ... Alfv?n's Theory and Electric Fields . ... The debate between proponents of a static corona, Parker's solar wind theory, and an alternative "solar breeze" theory of Chamberlai n [1960, 1961; Dessler 1967] was only settled by observations from space. ... Rapidly spreading plasma clouds produced by solar flares, like those envisioned by Chapman and Ferraro, are sometimes superposed on the solar wind flow. ...

The Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31: Variable Stars in Andromeda II . This paper has been accepted by the Astronomical Journal for the January 2004 issue. Download PDF or GZip'd postscript version. ... Globular Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies . ... This paper has now been published in the Astronomical Journal, Volume 124, page 332 (2002). ... This paper has appeared in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 207 ``Extragalactic Star Clusters'', eds D. Geisler, E. Grebel and D. Minniti, p. 83 (2002). ...

... Coalsack Dark Nebula или Black Magellanic Cloud - темная туманность Угольный мешок (Caldwell 99) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Туманность Угольный мешок (Coalsack Dark Nebula, Black Magellanic Cloud) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Поиск направления на Южный Полюс через звезды созвездия Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross) .: NGC 4609 Coaldust Cluster Coal Sack Crux .. ...

... STScI-PRC00-25 A DYING STAR IN GLOBULAR CLUSTER M15 The globular cluster Messier 15 is shown in this color image obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). ... Known as Kuestner 648, this was the first planetary nebula to be identified in a globular cluster. ... At the present time, the most massive stars remaining in M15 have about 80 percent of the mass of our Sun, a fact that makes the existence of a planetary nebula like K 648 something of a mystery. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...