... When several big planets are orbiting a star under each other's influence, the ... Such objects have indeed been found in some young star clusters. ... objects can also just form by themselves, without ever being in orbit around a star ...
... When the star's energy sources are finally exhausted, however, gravity shrinks the star unhindered. ... star is more than 1.44 solar masses, gravity overwhelms the quantum forces, and the star collapses further to become a neutron ...
... Although city lights and light cloud limited visibility to the summer Triangle and a handful of other first-magnitude stars, the CCD recorded stars down to about 8.5 magnitude, allowing us to obtain an astrometric position for the star cluster M11. ...
... It contains three carefully drawn graphs labeled "Evolution of the Sun," "Evolution of a 25 Solar Mass Star," and "Temperature Changes in Six Stars." ...
... the Pleiades star cluster, a grouping of a couple of hundred stars, all relatively ... note the small bluish star at the very center of the nebula -- the dead star's core ...
... result, super star clusters constitute a substantial portion of the stars and light ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ... stars forming in dense environments would have few low-mass stars and many high-mass ...
... A variety of star maps with different themes: Where in the night sky are the stars will go supernova, the location of black holes, or stars that have orbiting planets? ...