... 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 . ...

... Current computer models are indicating that at least one in ten stars are orbited by an Earth-sized planet, making our Milky Way Galaxy the home to over ten billion Earths. ... Drifting near bright star Eta Geminorum, at the foot of a celestial twin, the Jellyfish Nebula is seen dangling tentacles from the bright arcing ridge of emission left of center. ... Found near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, they contain from 100 to 10,000 stars, all of which formed at nearly the same time. ...

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... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

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! ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... 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! ...

... 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. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

. Astronomers model the growth of hierarchical structure in the universe using computer simulations. This simulation image maps the unseen dark matter belonging to the two colliding galaxy clusters. Gas is attracted by the gravity of the dark matter and heated as it flows into the higher-density regions, giving off X rays. Thus, X-ray images let astronomers trace the cluster's dark matter by mapping the high-energy emission from its hot gas. The Virgo Consortium/Max-Planck-Institut fУМr Astrophysik

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. ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

... Up: Data Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Software . Previous: An Automatic Astronomical Classifier Based on Topological Neural Networks . ... Teuben, P. J., Wolfire, M. G., Pound, M. W., & Mundy, L. G. 2000, in ASP Conf. ... P. J. Teuben, M. G. Wolfire, M. W. Pound, L. G. Mundy . ... We have assembled a cluster of Intel-Pentium based PCs running Linux to compute a large set of Photodissociation Region (PDR) and Dust Continuum models. ... 2000). ... Teuben, P. J. 2000, BIMA memo (in preparation) . ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Longitudes of central meridian. Explanations. Table contains for all dates at 0h of Time Terrestrial Dynamical longitudes of central meridian of illuminated part of planetary disk (degrees).

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 | ...

. N OTE: . Only clusters with R<60 kpc were used to compute the spatial parameters and metallicity gradients for all subsystems except the corona. The numbers in parantheses give the number of clusters for which the corresponding parameter is known. The X O scale length of the old halo is strongly distorted by the observed asymmetry of the distribution of the corresponding clusters projected onto the XY plane ( Fig. 4А ) . discussion in the text | previous table .

... Most stars form in clusters, so the simple picture of star formation needs to incorporate the impact that young stars have on their environments, and each other. One region we study is NGC 1333, shown to the left as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This is a тАЬproto-typicalтАЭ star-forming region located тАЬonlyтАЭ 1000 light years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus. ... Copyright 2015 Adele Plunkett. ...