... Credit: L. Drissen, J. Roy and C. Robert ( Universite Laval ), Y. Dutil ( CFHT ), NASA Explanation: These two clusters of bright, newly formed stars surrounded by a glowing nebula lie 10 million light-years away in the dim, irregular galaxy cataloged as NGC 2366. ... Compared to the sun, the stars in these clusters are massive and short lived . ... Publications with keywords: star cluster - Eta Carinae - NGC 2363 - irregular galaxy - star formation - massive stars . ... X Ray Stars of Orion . ...

... October 14, 1996 . Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy . Credit: L. Drissen, J. Roy and C. Robert ( Universite Laval ), Y. Dutil ( CFHT ), NASA . Explanation: These two clusters of bright, newly formed stars surrounded by a glowing nebula lie 10 million light years away in the dim, irregular galaxy cataloged as NGC 2366. ... A comparison with ground based images indicates that in three years this star's brightness increased by about 40 times making it currently the brightest star in this dim galaxy . ...

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. ...

... 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 > . ...

... A new bright LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) star was detected in M33 galaxy. LBV stars are the most massive stars in the final stages of evolution before exploding in of supernovae. ... The new LBV star (Fig.1) is the seventh in M33. ... It is one of the brightest LBV stars of the M33 galaxy. ... The brightest object is the core of the galaxy, - a compact star cluster comprising a supermassive black hole. The new LBV star N93351 is located down and to the left from the core. ...

... Stars . ... Cepheid variable stars have been known since the 18th century. ... Regularly brightening to a peak over days, weeks or months before fading these variable stars were remarkable curiosities to astronomers in past centuries.€а The term Cepheid is taken from the star Delta Cephei in the constellation of Cepheus, which was identified as variable€а in 1784 by the teenaged prodigy John Goodricke (1764-96). ... Tweets that mention Cepheids: Inconstant Stars which break the rules | ...

... It shows the bright stars of the Wishing Well Cluster, which earned its name because of the many stars that resemble silver coins sparkling at the bottom of a wishing well. ... All the stars in this cluster, for example, are around 300 million years old. The Wishing Well Cluster has a rich mix of around 400 red and blue stars. ... The most massive stars in the cluster aren t visible in this picture. ... In our Galaxy, you can tell how old a star cluster is based on where it s found. ...

... Conditions are like those inside a white dwarf. ... It is not well understood what changes are caused inside the star, but the star certainly loses mass between leaving the main sequence and becoming a helium-burning horizontal branch star. When core helium burning ends, the low mass star rejoins the asymptotic giant branch, where the hydrogen and helium burning shells interact, causing a series of thermal pulses. ... Stars less than one third of a solar mass will not ignite helium at all. ...

... Harald Ebeling, University of Hawaii . A Snapshot Survey of The Most Massive Clusters of Galaxies . Abstract . ... Stephan McCandliss, The Johns Hopkins University . ... HST Imaging of UV emission in Quiescent Early-type Galaxies . ... Distances to Eclipsing M Dwarf Binaries . ... SL2S: The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey . ... Hubble Investigation of Asteroid 21 Lutetia in Support of the Rosetta Mission Flyby . ... GO 11289: SL2S - The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey . ... Past weeks: . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... RV Tau Variables in Globular Clusters - clues on their nature? ... This is a report of the detailed elemental abundances of RV Tau variables that reside in globular clusters, and how they compare with RV Tau variables in the field. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globular