... M55: Globular Star Cluster . ... The fifty-fifth entry in Charles Messier's catalog, M55 is a large and lovely globular cluster of around 100,000 stars. Only 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, M55 appears to earth-bound observers to be nearly 2/3 the size of the full moon. ... Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan . ... Not APOD editors. ... Cat s Eye . ... Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. ...

... 2000 September 22 . M55: Globular Star Cluster . ... Explanation: The fifty-fifth entry in Charles Messier's catalog, M55 is a large and lovely globular cluster of around 100,000 stars. ... Globular star clusters like M55 roam the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy as gravitationally bound populations of stars known to be much older than stellar groups found in the galactic disk. Astronomers who make detailed studies of globular cluster stars can accurately measure the cluster ages and distances. ...

... 2000 August 4 . M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster . ... In fact, only 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, M15 is one of the most densely packed globular star clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy. This stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of M15 shows thousands of individual stars across the central 10 or so light-years of the cluster, also cataloged as NGC 7078. ... Globular star clusters harbor from a hundred thousand up to a million stars and roam the Milky Way halo. ...

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! ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

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. ...

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... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. The space-warping galaxy cluster Abell 1689, which lies 2.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Virgo, contains trillions of suns, but most of its matter can't be seen. Still, this unseen mass affects space, bending the light from individual galaxies behind the cluster into multiple curved, bluish arcs. This image is about 2 million light-years across. NASA/ESA and the ACS Science Team

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. ...

We investigate dust production and stellar mass loss in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362. ... We detect several cluster members near the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) that exhibit infrared excesses indicative of circumstellar dust and find that dust is not present in measurable quantities in stars below the tip of the RGB. ... The two most extreme stars, variables V2 and V16, contribute up to 45% of the total cluster dust-traced mass loss. ...

... Research . ... I aim to understand the variety of processes that have driven galaxy formation and mass assembly across cosmological history via the resolved (star-by-star) study of nearby systems - in particular the Milky Way and Andromeda (especially their stellar halos and globular cluster populations), the Magellanic Clouds, and the myriad of smaller dwarfs that inhabit the "Local Group".б  . ... Globular clusters are fascinating objects in their own right. ...

... 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 | ...

... Messier 13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13) - шаровое скопление NGC 6205 (Melotte 150) в созвездии Геркулес (Hercules) .. ... Просмотр полной версии : Messier 13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13) - шаровое скопление NGC 6205 (Melotte 150) в созвездии Геркулес (Hercules) .. ... Messier 13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13) - шаровое скопление NGC 6205 (Melotte 150) в созвездии Геркулес (Hercules (http://www.starlab.ru/showpost.php?p=480881&postcount=1)) .. ... Messier 13 (M13) .:...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... So far in our hop from cluster to cluster we've seen associations , then constellations , and then our first truly bound group of open clusters . ... Some open clusters have tens of thousands of stars, but a decent globular cluster has over a million. ... Our Milky Way galaxy sports about 100 globulars that we have detected. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... We address a question if globular clusters (GC) in a protogalaxy could for some time evolve chemically as isolated systems, enriching themselves with heavy elements produced in first supernova events that follow initial star formation. We determine both the critical mass of a protoglobular cluster that is needed to retain the ejecta of the very first supernova, and the critical energy (i.e., number of supernovae) that is needed to expel the residual gas from a cluster of a given mass. ...

... Galactocentric distance dependences of the physical parameters of globular clusters. ... The straight line in (a) is the rms regression. The large circles in (b) show mean masses within narrow R intervals, and the solid lines show the rms regression fits for thick-disk and old-halo (left) and young-halo and corona (right) clusters. The dashed lines in (c) and (d) are upper and lower envelopes drawn by eye. discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure . ...

Figure 1. ... Scattering geometry illustration. ... Maps of scattering angle in the cluster core for standard GCW grains and a Model A nebula (left) and UV-altered GCW grains in the same model (right). ... Degrees of consistency between the scattering angles of different models at different wavelengths. ... Schmidt scattering angles over a wider area. ... Schmidt line-of-sight separations over the same area, derived for two different simplified geometric models. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Images . ... Radio Images of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae . ... We present deep ATCA radio images of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae made at 1.4 and 1.7 GHz and indentify 9 compact sources in the cluster core with 11 pulsars. ... Keywords: Pulsars, Globular cluster:47 Tucanae, radio continuum . ...