Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... NASA Explanation: Bright clusters of stars form and disperse near the center of our Galaxy . ... The Quintuplet Cluster is located within 100 light-years of the Galactic center , and is home to the brightest star yet cataloged in our Galaxy: the Pistol Star . ... Publications with keywords: star cluster - Galactic Center - open cluster - star . Publications with words: star cluster - Galactic Center - open cluster - star . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster . ...

... 2001 February 7 . Distant Open Cluster M103 . ... Explanation: Bright blue stars highlight the open cluster known as M103 . The gas clouds from which these stars condensed has long dispersed. ... In fact, a formerly blue star has recently evolved off the main sequence and is visible above as the red giant star near the cluster center. In general, yellow stars like our Sun are usually less bright and hence less prominent in open clusters than their massive blue cousins. ... About APOD | ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy Foundation . ... Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the latter, how? ... The Milky Way Galaxy has a system of roughly 150 globular clusters, which are all older than 9 billion years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... Properties of young massive clusters in our Galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Clouds, as well as of Super Star Clusters in star-forming galaxies. The diagram shows the mass and radius of these clusters and also the position of Westerlund 1 (indicated Wd 1). ...

8th of February 2015 . International Year of Light 2015 . High resolution radio emission from RCW 49 . ... Benaglia et al. (2013) analyse Molonglo 843 MHz and ATCA 5.5 / 9 GHz radio continuum data. They find two radio shells closely matching the Spitzer infrared emission, showing pillars, filaments and a bright bridge. The image shows the ATCA 9 GHz radio continuum emission in red , the Spitzer 3.6 micron emission in blue and the Spitzer 8 micron emission in green . ... today * ATNF | ...

In 1995 Ukraine started operation of Vernadsky antarctic research station . The station was transfered by Great Britain, former Faraday station. ... Vernadsky is the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) former Faraday station that has been transferred free to Ukraine for Ukrainian Antarctic Center (UAC) at 7 February 1996. ... Vernadsky (Faraday) is the oldest operational station in the Antarctic Peninsula area. ... Vernadsky is the first Ukrainian Antarctic station. ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

AN X-RAY TOUR OF MASSIVE STAR-FORMING REGIONS WITH CHANDRA Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions Leisa Townsley Patrick Broos Eric Feigelson Gordon Garmire Konstantin Getman Junfeng Wang The Penn State Chandra/ACIS Star Formation Group Orion: Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP, PI Feigelson) 2005, ApJS 160 30 Doradus diffuse: Townsley et al. ... 14 O stars, several form a 1 ring. 15 в 15 2MASS image The 40-ksec Chandra/ACIS-I observation of M17 (17 в 17): 0.5­2 keV; 2­8 keV. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...

... Korea Astronaut Program (KAP) . ... four sets of demonstration equipment representing sets of objects for demonstrating basic physical laws. The Space Pen equipment set includes two fans and three pens: normal gel pen, special space pen and brush pen. Space pen set; . Space pen, gel pen and brush pen of a polymer material; . ... Newton’s law set includes various equipment (rope, two spheres, spherical shells, force and mass set) designed for demonstration of Newton’s laws in microgravity). ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

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. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix . The first version of the Scenario Machine was aimed especially at the simulation of massive binary star evolution. ... First, there is a large class of intermediate mass binaries (say, consisting initially of 8 + 5 solar masses) that can also produce NS and thus lead to the formation of a bright X-ray source. ... Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Kopylov, A.I., Kopylova, F.G. "Structure of galaxy groups and clusters and measurement of their masses", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Peculiar motions of galaxy clusters and groups in the Hercules and Leo supercluster regions", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Leo supercluster", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major supercluster", . ...