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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... 2014 January 23 . Double Cluster in Perseus . ... Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884 , both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. ... Visible toward the upper left of the wide field of view is another, smaller open star cluster, NGC 957 , also of similar age, distance, and possibly related to the more famous Double Cluster in Perseus. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

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• APOD: 2007 December 7 - Double Cluster in Perseus
• APOD: 2006 September 10 - Star Clusters Young and Old
• APOD: 2012 April 3 - M46 and M47: Star Clusters Young and Old

... M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars . ... Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. ... Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover . ... What does the Curiosity rover look like on Mars? ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033 . ... Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater . ... If you could stand on Mars, what would you see? ... The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity . ... First page ] Prev. ...

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• Double Cluster in Perseus
• Star Clusters Young and Old

... 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. ...

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. 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 .

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• Subsystems of the Galactic halo, figures
• Globular clusters with anomalously small masses, figures

This animation shows a galaxy cluster with two mass concentrations (the pink shading indicates the projected mass density) lensing a background field of faint blue galaxies. ... Inside the Einstein ring radius one has radial arcs, and right in the center of the cluster there are demagnified images. The highest magnifications occur at the Einstein ring radius, giving the large tangential arcs. ... Abell 2218 and CL2244-02 are clusters with tangential arcs. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

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• A 20 cm VLA survey of Abell clusters of galaxies
• A VLA Survey of Rich Clusters of Galaxies I.
• A VLA Survey of Rich Clusters of Galaxies III

... 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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... 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. ...

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• APOD: January 6, 1999 - M6: The Butterfly Cluster
• APOD: December 13, 1997 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: 2001 March 11 - NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster

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! ...

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• NGC4666: Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy | Astronotes
• Omega Centauri: globular cluster of 300,000 stars | Astronotes
• A Spectacular View of the Lagoon Nebula | Astronotes

... Astronomers experienced the same thing, only this time they photographed a dwarf galaxy , and a globular cluster blocked the view. ... A globular cluster is a collection of old stars that orbits a galaxy. ... This particular globular cluster is orbiting the Milky Way our home galaxy. ... Light travels faster than anything in the world, so you could say that this cluster is enormous! ... Astronomers are lucky that the globular cluster insisted on being on camera, as they can now study it in detail. ...

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• http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1519/kids/
• The bright star clusters Messier 47 and Messier 46 in the constellation of
• Panning across the bright star cluster Messier 7 | ESO

... We describe a tool in the PCIPS environment for finishing the job of globular cluster photometry started by DAOPHOT II: starting with the instrumental magnitudes derived by DAOPHOT II, DASHA can automatically produce final color-magnitude diagrams. ... DASHA can automate the whole process of globular cluster photometry, from instrumental magnitude lists produced by DAOPHOT II, to final color-magnitude diagrams. ... DASHA is oriented towards star lists produced by DAOPHOT II as source data. ...

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• A Commodity Computing Cluster
• References for Galaxy Clusters Database
• Object Detection Using Multi-Resolution Analysis

... Archives . ... my first AAS. ... I was questioned by two attendees, acquainted before the AAS, if I can suggest them clustering methods relevant to their projects. ... classification vs. clustering or supervised learning vs. unsupervised learning : the former terms from the pairs indicate the fact that the scientist already knows types of objects in his hands. ... Tags: Classification , clustering , cosmology , spatial statistics , supervised learning , test , unsupervised learning . ...

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• The AstroStat Slog Globular Clusters
• The AstroStat Slog clusters
• Southern SHARC survey

Despite many decades of progress in understanding the evolution of star formation and stellar populations in galaxies, we have still fundamental questions that have remained unanswered. These include: how do stars cluster in galaxies, and how do these structures evolve in time? ... How are popular star formation rate indicators affected by the recent star formation history of a galaxy? ... The answers to these questions inform our theories for the evolution of galaxies through cosmic times. ...

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• Dougal Mackey - Research
• GSAOI Open Cluster Science Page
• GSAOI Super Star Clusters Science Page

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. ...

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• Pulsar Highlights - A Dozen new MSPs in Globular Clusters
• The Pleiades

... 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 Description
• SAI OCL Catalog Publications
• SAI OCL Catalog Structure

This site provides on-line access to publications, figures, and data tables related to an extensive multi-wavelength observational program to study distant galaxy clusters. ... Lori Lubin, Bev Oke, and Marc Postman have been studying a sample of 9 distant clusters (some taken from the PDCS) using the Keck 10m telescope, the HST, and the KPNO 4m (for IR imaging). ... A Study of Nine High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies: I. The Survey, . ... A Study of Nine High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies: II. ...

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• Fusi Pecci et al.: Photometric Measurements of Simulated Restored Images
• ST ScI Preprint #1362
• Files

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: Star Science in the Autumn Sky
• ASP: Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way
• ASP: Sharing the Universe

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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• http://www.atmob.org/about/observing/awards/files/globular_cluster_instructions_2011-02-01.pdf
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ATMoB Observing Awards Program
• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

... The most powerful and widely used methods to calculate the scattering matrix of a fractal cluster are based on the coupled dipoles methods (e.g. the Discrete Dipole Approximation, DDA) and the theory of light scattering by a cluster of spherical particles [2-4]. ... At present the procedure of calculation of the scattering matrix is well developed for both an oriented cluster of spherical particles and for chaotically oriented clusters of such particles [4]. ...

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• Introduction
• Model realization and some results

... 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 . ...

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