... 2014 June 8 . Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box . ... Explanation: Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. ... NGC 290 and other open clusters are good laboratories for studying how stars of different masses evolve , since all the open cluster's stars were born at about the same time. Best space images: Free APOD Lecture in Paris on June 17 . ...

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• APOD: 2006 May 1 - Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
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... Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box . ... Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. ... Open clusters of stars are younger, contain few stars, and contain a much higher fraction of blue stars than do globular clusters of stars. ... NGC 290 and other open clusters are good laboratories for studying how stars of different masses evolve , since all the open cluster's stars were born at about the same time. ...

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• Journal "Peremennye Zvezdy"

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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• The Galaxy Gallery Page IX: Clusters of Galaxies

... 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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... 87.1083Owen+ VIII/29 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies (Owen+ 1982) ================================================================================ A 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies Owen F.N., White R.A., Hilldrup K.C., Hanisch R.J. =1982AJ.. ... 0,] Major axis error 70- 71 A2 --- n_MajAxi *[ A, B, C,NR, ] Major axis note 73- 74 I2 arcmin MinAxi *? ... Note on dist-C: Ratio of the distance of the source from the cluster center to the corrected Abell cluster...

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• A 20 cm VLA survey of Abell clusters of galaxies
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... From the data taken during Cycle 1, surface brightness profiles have been obtained for 13 globular clusters in M31 (Fusi Pecci et al. 1993), leading also to the detection of a central cusp in a candidate post-core-collapse cluster (Bendinelli et al. ... Surface brightness profiles obtained with VISTA. ... PSF 512 512, data matrix smaller and smaller (256 256, 128 128, 64 64), sky = 0, RMG (Fig. 3b): the derived profiles remain unaffected a part from the reduction in radial extension. ...

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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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Searching for Ultra Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters What Are Ultra Compact Binaries? ... An ultra compact binary is a binary that consists two white dwarf To source the FITS files that contained the UV images, the sky coordinates stars and has an orbital period shorter than ~70min (A binary and the details on brightness for each star in each globular cluster we were consists of two stars orbiting around their centre of mass, it enables investigating, we used the XMM online archive. ...

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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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• http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/seminars/abstracts/20150804-1100.html
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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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... 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 ...

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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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... 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) ...

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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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• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ATMoB Observing Awards Program

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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... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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• The Astronomy Shop - Books - by Astronomy Net
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... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

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... Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Compact Stellar Systems in the Fornax Cluster: Super-massive Star Clusters or Extremely Compact Dwarf Galaxies? ... We suggest that these objects are either super-massive star clusters (intra-cluster globular clusters or tidally stripped nuclei of dwarf galaxies) or a new type of low-luminosity compact elliptical dwarf (``M32-type'') galaxy. ... Keywords: galaxies: star clusters -- galaxies: dwarf -- galaxies: formation . ... Properties of the compact objects ...

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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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