Astronomy Picture of the Day . Cosmic Collisions in a Galaxy Cluster . ... 22.07.1999 . ... Credit: P. van Dokkum, M. Franx (U. Groningen/ U. Leiden ), ESA , NASA Explanation: Hundreds of galaxies appear as faint smudges of light in this Hubble Space Telescope picture of galaxy cluster MS1054-03. ... July 1999 . ... Publications with keywords: cluster of galaxies - colliding galaxies . Publications with words: cluster of galaxies - colliding galaxies . ... The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies . ...

Astronomy.com - A star cluster hides star clusters 4/2/08 11:35 AM News A star cluster hides star clusters Deep Hubble images of NGC 6397 reveal the most distant star clusters ever seen. Francis Reddy January 10, 2007 W hile exploring deep Hubble Space Telescope images of a globular star cluster called NGC 6397, astronomers stumbled on a distant background galaxy harboring hundreds of similar clusters. Each is so distant, it appears only as a faint point of light, even to Hubble's keen eye. ...

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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. ...

... July 22, 1999 . Cosmic Collisions in a Galaxy Cluster . ... Eight billion light-years away , the cluster is among the most distant known clusters of galaxies and is now reported to contain the largest number of colliding galaxies ever found in a cluster. ... Though galaxy collisions appear to have occurred much more frequently in the distant, early Universe , they are still seen to happen in the nearby, "close-to-present" Universe. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 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. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... STScI-PRC99-28 GALAXY COLLISIONS IN DISTANT CLUSTER The group of galaxies -- or "galaxy cluster" -- catalogued as MS1054-03 is 8 billion light-years away, one of the most distant known so far. Although hundreds of galaxies appear in the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, a European-led team of astronomers has studied in detail 81 galaxies that certainly belong to the cluster, 13 of which are remnants of recent collisions or pairs of colliding galaxies. ...

... 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. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

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... 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 ...

... We found that 10 metal-poor globular clusters are greately distinguished for anomalously small masses on the "destruction rate-mass" plain. As it turned out, these poor clusters, situated 15 kpc farther from the Galactic centre, are somewhat younger than the bulk of the metal-poor globulars, and have anomalously red horizontal branches. ... At the same time, deficiency of distant massive clusters is noticeable with increasing distance from the galactic centre. ...

... 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 . ... A star cluster hides star clusters . ... W hile exploring deep Hubble Space Telescope images of a globular star cluster called NGC 6397, astronomers stumbled on a distant background galaxy harboring hundreds of similar clusters. ... A single giant star in NGC 6397 outshines one of the background galaxy's clusters by 10 million times....

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

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. ...