... M4: The Closest Known Globular Cluster . ... 23.05.2000 . ... Credit Copyright: T2KA , KPNO 0.9-m Telescope , NOAO , AURA , NSF Explanation: M4 is a globular cluster visible in dark skies about one degree west of the bright star Antares in the constellation Scorpius . M4 is perhaps the closest globular cluster at 7000 light years , meaning that we see M4 only as it was 7000 years ago, near the dawn of recorded human history . ... Publications with keywords: cluster - M 4 - globular cluster . ...

... M4: The Closest Known Globular Cluster . ... Explanation: M4 is a globular cluster visible in dark skies about one degree west of the bright star Antares in the constellation Scorpius . M4 is perhaps the closest globular cluster at 7000 light years , meaning that we see M4 only as it was 7000 years ago, near the dawn of recorded human history . Although containing hundreds of thousands of stars and spanning over 50 light-years, M4 is one of the smallest and sparsest globular clusters known. ...

We investigate dust production and stellar mass loss in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362. ... We detect several cluster members near the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) that exhibit infrared excesses indicative of circumstellar dust and find that dust is not present in measurable quantities in stars below the tip of the RGB. ... The two most extreme stars, variables V2 and V16, contribute up to 45% of the total cluster dust-traced mass loss. ...

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. F IGURE . 2. The distribution of globular clusters projected onto the XY [(a) and (c)] and YZ [(b) and (d)] planes for metal-rich clusters of the thick disk with [Fe/H] -1.0 [(a) and (b)] and metal-poor clusters of the halo [(c) and (d)]. The closed curves are upper envelopes drawn by eye. Clusters lying far from the central concentrations in the diagrams are outlined and their numbers indicated. discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .

Apr 13 2015 Aquila - The Eagle ABELL 70 Jun 25 2003 12.5" 9mmT6 Planetary Neb VDIF,VF,MS,R,PATCH,F* ON ONE EDGE,AV,R=F IC 1298 17mmT4 Open Cluster VS CL, 6778 P 3' Jun 20 2004 31" MF,MS,OVAL,UB,NND,SEVERAL F*'S IN EDGE AND AROUND GAL,R=F IC 1317 17mmT4 Galaxy E+? ... PB,PL,APPROX 10*'S,LOOSE,SCATTERED,R=P CL Jun 25 2003 12.5" 9mmT6 NGC 6735 Open Cluster 12.0 CL,VL,P,ST12.. ... CL,P,LC Jun 25 2003 12.5" 9mmT6 MB,ML,NICE IN 9MM,*'S APPROX SAME MAGNITUDE,PAIR=6843,R=F NGC 6843 Open Cluster 10.0 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! ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 09/20/2011 13:07:39 . Comet Garradd and M 15 . ... During the latter part of July, the comet passed the globular cluster Messier 15 in the constellation of Pegasus. This image was taken one day before the closest approach to the cluster. 3 images x 360-second subframes and 11 images x 5-second subframes, Total= 18 minutes 55 seconds. ... 31 July 2011, Chester, Vermont. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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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This image from the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This great ball of ancient stars is one of the closest of such stellar systems to the Earth. New observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed that one star€атАФ€аmarked on this picture€атАФ has much more lithium than the other stars in the cluster that have been studied.€аThe source of this lithium is mysterious. ...

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (normally known as AGES) is using the Arecibo Telescope to search for galaxies in a number of quite different areas of the local universe. ... NGC 628 group (precursor) - published (Auld et al., ... NGC 1156 (isolated galaxy) - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . NGC 7332/9 galaxy pair - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . ... NGC 5523 (isolated galaxy) - completed (contact: Robert Minchin) . ... AGES team page - password protected . ...

Simulating the Evolution of Stellar Clusters ? ... Resonant Exchange (few Myr) 4perturbed: 6000d, e=0.94 4CE + CE - DWD (0.35d) 2.0 MS 0.8 WD 4GR - merger after 10 Gyr M = 1.6 Msun Comparison with Data: Simulation of M67 H 12,000 single stars (KTG1993 IMF: 0.1 - 50 Msun ) H 12,000 binaries (q: uniform, e: thermal, a: flat-log, max 50 au) H Z = 0.02 H Circular orbit at Rgc = 8 kpc H Plummer Sphere in virial equilibrium 4M ~ 18700 Msun 4 Rt = 32 pc 4Trh ~ 200 Myr 4s ~ 3 km/s 4nc ~ 200 ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

The most massive black holes in the nearby Universe seem to largely be hosted by massive central cluster galaxies. The ultra-massive black hole in NGC 1277, reported by van den Bosch et al. based on a stellar kinematic measurement, is an extreme outlier in this respect. NGC 1277 is not a central cluster galaxy, but a lenticular galaxy in the Perseus Cluster, at a distance of about 3.8 from the central cluster galaxy. ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...

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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 . ...

Next: Contents . Cover Illustration: The background image used on the cover is taken from a photograph by Bob Fosbury showing the bay in Sardinia close to where the conference took place. It is reproduced at far lower resolution than the original. The upper insert is one of the ESO VLT firstlight images and is a true colour view of the core of the globular cluster Messier 4. ... More details of the VLT first light are given in the VLT First Light paper. ... Next: Contents Norbert Pirzkal . ...