... The Elusive Jellyfish Nebula . ... Drifting near bright star Eta Geminorum, at the foot of a celestial twin, the Jellyfish Nebula is seen dangling tentacles from the bright arcing ridge of emission left of center. Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424 . ... AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula . ... Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 . ... Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact. ... Bright blue stars frequently distinguish younger open clusters. ...

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... 2001 November 3 . Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy . Credit: L. Drissen, J. Roy and C. Robert ( Universite Laval ), Y. Dutil ( CFHT ), NASA . Explanation: These two clusters of bright, newly formed stars surrounded by a glowing nebula lie 10 million light-years away in the dim, irregular galaxy cataloged as NGC 2366. ... A comparison with ground based images indicates that in three years this star's brightness increased by about 40 times making it currently the brightest star in this dim galaxy . ...

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• APOD: 2011 November 13 - The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble
• APOD: 2009 November 8 - M7: Open Star Cluster in Scorpius
• APOD: 2002 November 29 - Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158

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• The location of the bright star cluster NGC 3532 in the constellation of Carina
• ESO - Galaxy Clusters in the Early Universe
• The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* | ESO

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

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• Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Clusters
• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery

... 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. ...

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• APOD: 2000 August 4 - M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster
• APOD: May 22, 1996 - Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
• APOD: November 12, 1996 - Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14

... 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) ...

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GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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• http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/seminars/abstracts/20151106-1420.html
• GSAOI Orion Nebula Cluster Science Page
• Blue Straggler Stars

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

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• M55 globular cluster seen by ESO | Astronotes
• stellar nursery | Astronotes
• A Spectacular View of the Lagoon Nebula | Astronotes

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

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• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ATMoB Observing Awards Program

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...

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... From the data taken during Cycle 1, surface brightness profiles have been obtained for 13 globular clusters in M31 (Fusi Pecci et al. 1993), leading also to the detection of a central cusp in a candidate post-core-collapse cluster (Bendinelli et al. ... Surface brightness profiles obtained with VISTA. ... PSF 512 512, data matrix smaller and smaller (256 256, 128 128, 64 64), sky = 0, RMG (Fig. 3b): the derived profiles remain unaffected a part from the reduction in radial extension. ...

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• HST this week: 315
• STScI Preprint #1297
• HST this week: 331

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Gallery by Ed Fox . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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• This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ February 2016 ? Amateur Astronomers Association of New
• Astro-Imaging ? Page 6 ? Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
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... Radio source identifications . The Web-server of the Astronomical Institute of the St.-Petersburg University opens the experimental service on assignment of clusters data. At present only the data about radio sources in ACO clusters of galaxies are reasonably complete, while only restricted optical information is in our database. Later on, we also intend to include X-ray data and data about brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). ... ACO: radio optic ( for example, A0690 and " optic "), . ...

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• A 20 cm VLA survey of Abell clusters of galaxies
• A 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies
• A VLA Survey of Rich Clusters of Galaxies I.

... Star Atlas . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... The Queen's clusters . ... This chance alignment of stars (it's not a true star cluster) first was described by Franciscan amateur astronomer Father Lucian Kemble (1922т??1999), who found it while scanning the sky with binoculars. ...

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• Two open clusters in Canis Major, emission nebula NGC 2316, and spiral galaxy
• A trio of open clusters in Cygnus, planetary nebula NGC 7139, and elliptical
• Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster | Astronomy.com

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

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• ASP: Taking a Grand Virtual Voyage in the Milky Way
• ASP: NGC Images on the Net
• ASP: Star Science in the Autumn Sky

... 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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• Grubb 10 inch Refractor
• Photos from the OASES event on 12 November 2010 at Armagh Planetarium | OASES
• OASES event on 12 November | OASES Over us All is the SElfsame Sky | OASES 2010

... This paper ( Burke et al. 2003 ) describes the creation of one such catalogue - the Southern Serendipitous High-redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster (SHARC) survey - which covers an area of 17.7 deg 2 and consists of 32 clusters with redshifts between 0.05 and 0.7 and X-ray luminosities between 7 x 10 42 and 4 x 10 44 erg/s: the high-redshift subsample contains 16 clusters with = 0.3 and X-ray luminosities greater than 2 x 10 43 erg/s (luminosities are quoted for the 0.5 - 2.0 keV energy band). ... 1997 ...

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• The AstroStat Slog Globular Clusters
• The AstroStat Slog clusters
• Doug Burke: Publications List

... 12 Oct 02 2006 1.9 Jan 26 2006 8 CB,CS,R=F. R=G, SMALL, TIGHT, BRIGHT NGC 1912 M38 17mmAT 2012 M.M . Open Cluster 8.0 II 2 r CL,B,VL,VRI,IF,STL$S Mar 16 2012 18 Mar 01 2011 12 Mar 08 2010 12 Dec 16 2009 12 Mar 20 2009 16 Mar 17 2007 1.9 17mmAT M.M . 2011 - MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES M.M . 2010 MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES 26mm 20mmUW MESSIER MARATHON - 2009 26mm ...

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• http://www.wro.org/neumann/RNGC_by_Constellation-Cep.pdf
• http://www.wro.org/scodova/RNGC_by_Constellation-Vul.pdf
• http://www.wro.org/neumann/RNGC_by_Constellation-Mon.pdf

... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

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• important_en
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• Detection of unique bright radio flare of X-ray binary

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

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• SAI OCL Catalog Publications
• SAI OCL Catalog Structure