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... Credit: G. De Marchi, F. Paresce, B. Leibundgut, L. Pulone, ( European Southern Observatory ) Explanation: Following orbits which loop high above the galactic plane , globular star clusters are probably 12 to 14 billion years old - truly ancient denizens of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... One of about 150 globular clusters known to be members of the Milky Way, NGC 6712 is thought to have crossed through the crowded galactic plane only a few million years ago. ... Globular Star Cluster M3 . ...

... 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. ...

... Catalog . Publications . ... Koposov, S., Glushkova, E., Zolotukhin, I. 2008: Automated search for Galactic star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... BibTeX entry ] . ... Glushkova, E.V., Zabolotskikh, M.V., Koposov, S.E., Spiridonova, O.I, Vlasyuk, V.V., Rastorguev, A. S. 2010: Photometry of the poorly studied galactic open star clusters King 13, King 18, King 19, King 20, NGC 136, and NGC 7245 , Astronomy Letters, 36, 75 . ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... February 25, 1999 . NGC 6712: Galactic Globular Cluster . ... Explanation: Following orbits which loop high above the galactic plane , globular star clusters are probably 12 to 14 billion years old - truly ancient denizens of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... One of about 150 globular clusters known to be members of the Milky Way, NGC 6712 is thought to have crossed through the crowded galactic plane only a few million years ago. ... About APOD > . ...

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. ...

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. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > Science in Garching > Research Area: STELLAR POPULATIONS . ... Research Area: STELLAR POPULATIONS . Subject in this research area aim at understanding the stellar content of nearby star clusters and galaxies with the goal of understanding their formation and evolution history. ... Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM Stellar Populations Faculty . ... Planets and Star Formation Stellar Populations Stellar Structure and Evolution Faculty . ...

... 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 ...

. F IGURE . 13. The (a) metallicity and (b) age distributions of the globular clusters of Galactic origin. Different shadings are used to show the thick-disk and old-halo clusters. The curves are Gaussian fits to the corresponding histograms. discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure .

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. ...

... Запорожский клуб АЛЬТАИР > . Catalogue of 109 new Galactic open clusters, for Cartes du Ciel . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... Этот каталог является версией части каталога "J/A+A/440/403 109 new Galactic open clusters (Kharchenko+, 2005) ", а именно файла stars.dat, содержащего информацию о 26778 звездах до 14.627m , находящихся в 130 рассеяных скоплениях района Млечного Пути (Galactic Open Cluster). ... We present a list of 130 Galactic Open Clusters, found in the All-Sky . ...

... Our Milky Way galaxy is host to a number of companions. These companions are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way and are stellar systems in their own right. They include a population of about 150 globular clusters (GCs) and some 30 dwarf satellite galaxies (DSGs). ... These DSGs are more extended and diffuse compared to GCs. In fact the larger satellites of the Milky Way (and other galaxies, for that matter) host their own small systems of GCs. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Observations taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for the giant radio galaxy B0114-476 reveal a "double-double" structure with two outer diffuse lobes and two inner jet-like features. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... What's the difference between globular clusters and dwarf spheroidal galaxies? ... Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are much bigger than globular clusters. The Pegasus dwarf spheroidal galaxy, which orbits the famous spiral galaxy M31 in Andromeda, spans 2,000 light-years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

... 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. ...

... Last updated 10 October 2014 . ... Dr. Alasdair Dougal Mackey . ... Australian National University . ... 2004 - Ph.D., Institute of Astronomy and Trinity College, University of Cambridge . ... 2003-2006 - PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ... 2005 - Lecturer for Globular clusters and globular cluster systems (8 lectures), a course for first and second year Ph.D. б б б б б б б б б б б б б  students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Science . ... Observations of galaxy clusters are central to the AMI science programme. The AMI Small Array is used to observe already-known clusters with high-sensitivity and resolution, allowing us to extract detailed information about individual clusters and to build up statistics about the cluster population. ... Observing galaxy clusters at 15 GHz is tricky because of the contamination from foreground radio sources, which is where the Large Array comes in! ...