... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 21, 1998 . A Massive Cluster In A Young Universe . ... Explanation: Conventional theories suggest that this cluster of galaxies should not exist . ... One explanation for this cluster's presence is that the Universe we live in is not massive enough to eventually halt its expansion - contradicting some current standard views of cosmology . ...

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• APOD: 2008 August 3 - Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
• APOD: 2001 June 14 - Around The Arches Cluster
• APOD: 2003 August 4 - In the Center of the Virgo Cluster

... Colorful Water Clouds Over Mars . ... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ... Forty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. ... On April 12, 1981, twenty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth. ... At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. ... Next stop: Mars...

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... A few weeks ago, around a galaxy far, far away, a new type of mysterious БЂњdarkБЂќ star cluster was spotted. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by about 150 groups of stars, which are called globular clusters. ... A galaxy called Centaurus A (sen-TOR-us Ay) is surrounded by thousands of globular clusters. ... These globular clusters aren't the only dark object in Centaurus A, at the centre of this galaxy lies a black hole that is 55 million times more massive than our Sun! ...

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• ESO - Thesis Topic: Dynamical models of multiple globular cluster populations

... 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 > . ...

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• APOD: 2000 August 4 - M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster
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GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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• IAU Commission #34 (Interstellar Matter)
• Dougal Mackey - Research
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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. ...

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ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

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... Harry Teplitz, California Institute of Technology . ... Abstract . ... Carole A. Haswell, Open University . ... Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . ... Planet formation occurs in circumstellar disks around young stars. ... Most of the targets are early-type stars, with spectral types ranging from late-B to mid-G. 7 231 . ... Star-star interactions can lead to truncation of nascent disks, disruption of binary systems and even ejection from the cluster. ...

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• The Mass-loss Return from Evolved Stars to the Large Magellanic Cloud. II. Dust
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... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

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• Discovery of an isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy neighboring the Local Group
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... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

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... Posts tagged ?massive data? ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

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... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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• M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer
• Stars Beyond Maturity
• C.J. Butler, Research Astronomer

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

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• The Formation and Evolution of LMC Rich Star Clusters: NGC 1818
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... Moon . ... Stars . ... August . ... Since we will be searching the sky for meteors it would make sense to gaze deeper at the background of these celestial fireworks because this area of the sky has a lot to offer.Although Perseus had a brief mention in JulyтАЩs night sky , we can take a deeper look into the mythical hero in August .Its brightest star is Miphak with an apparent magnitude of 1.75.It marks the torso of the hero, although it is translated to meaning elbow but, nonetheless ...

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• Hubble shows us a spectacular star cluster | Astronotes

XMM-Newton observation of the core of the massive cluster Cyg OB2 located in the constellation Cygnus, 4,700 light-years from Earth. The cluster contains massive O-type stars that shine brightly in X-rays. Cyg OB2 #9 is seen as the bright star just below the central star, and in 2008 was determined to be a binary system. ... Hundreds of lower mass stars also fill the field of view, which spans nearly 22 x 16 arcminutes. ...

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• New VISTA image of star cluster 47 Tucanae | Astronomy.com
• XMM-Newton's massive discovery | Astronomy.com

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

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• Kuiper-Oort
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... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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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: A Good Definition of the Word "Planet": Mission Impossible?
• ASP: Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death
• ASP: Introductory Astronomy Glossary

In order to measure the density of the Universe, it is necessary to sample a region that is larger than the scale on which the Universe becomes approximately homogeneous. ... When applied to clusters of galaxies we find a mass to luminosity ratio that implies a density of the Universe that is about 0.3 times the critical density. ... Thus the mass-to-muinosity ratio appears to vary with the size of the region measured, from 3 in the solar neighborhood to 30 in galaxies to 300 in clusters of galaxies. ...

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• A 20 cm VLA survey of Abell clusters of galaxies
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• A 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies

... The survey uses HARP, a new submillimetre heterodyne array at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), to map the J = 3 - 2 rotational transitions of CO and its isotopologues 13CO and C18O across 630 sq. arcmin of the Perseus molecular cloud, in four regions: NGC1333, IC348, L1448 and L1455. ... A new catalogue of 850 micron SCUBA clumps is identified using two automated algorithms, clfind and GaussClumps. ... These data are one of the largest surveys of molecular outflows ever undertaken. ...

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• Astrophysics Group AMI Science
• A 215 to 265 GHz spectral line survey of the Sgr B2 molecular cloud
• Astrophysics Group AMI Publications