... The Quintuplet Star Cluster . ... Bright clusters of stars form and disperse near the center of our Galaxy. ... The Quintuplet Cluster is located within 100 light-years of the Galactic center, and is home to the brightest star yet cataloged in our Galaxy: the Pistol Star. ... Visible to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion, this image taken with the Big Throughput Camera shows the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. ...

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... 2014 October 8 . NGC 6823: Cloud Sculpting Star Cluster . ... Explanation: Star cluster NGC 6823 is slowly turning gas clouds into stars. ... Some outer parts of the cluster, visible in the featured image 's center as the stars and pillars of emission nebula NGC 6820 , contain even younger stars. ... Open star cluster NGC 6823 spans about 50 light years and lies about 6000 light years away toward the constellation of the Fox ( Vulpecula ). APOD Wall Calendar: Nebulas and Star Clusters . ...

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• APOD: 2004 October 4 - NGC 6823: Cloud Sculpting Star Cluster
• APOD: 2015 April 22 - Colorful Star Clouds in Cygnus
• APOD: August 23, 1996 - NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open 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! ...

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• WLM Galaxy: a Cosmic Living Fossil | Astronotes

... STScI-PRC00-25 A DYING STAR IN GLOBULAR CLUSTER M15 The globular cluster Messier 15 is shown in this color image obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). ... Known as Kuestner 648, this was the first planetary nebula to be identified in a globular cluster. ... At the present time, the most massive stars remaining in M15 have about 80 percent of the mass of our Sun, a fact that makes the existence of a planetary nebula like K 648 something of a mystery. ...

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• http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~palla/ANDREAIMMAGINI/ISM/ghostly.txt
• http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~palla/ANDREAIMMAGINI/Galassie/9821.txt
• A Search for Clustering around Herbig Ae/Be Stars

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/20150220-1400.html
• Blue Straggler Stars

An eight-billion-year-old cluster of stars 13,000 light-years from Earth, called NGC 6791, can be seen in the image. ... This particular cluster is called an open cluster, because the stars are loosely bound and have started to spread out from each other. The area pictured is 0.2 percent of Kepler's full field of view, and shows hundreds of stars in the constellation Lyra. The image has been color-coded so that brighter stars appear white, and fainter stars, red. ...

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• http://www.astronomy.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item=%7B44AE0D7A-3D00-45E9-A33C-9A358F7FF0A5%7D
• http://www.astronomy.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item=%7B0FAD7669-7238-499F-908D-97B43B4EC2B6%7D
• Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

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• Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Clusters
• Astro-2 and the UIT Experiment
• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery

Note that different students may see different quiz forms.) ... Giant stars are rare because . a) they do not form as often as main sequence stars. b) giant stars are unstable. c) the giant stage is very short compared to the main sequence stage. d) elements heavier than helium are relatively rare. In a color-magnitude diagram of a star cluster, the blue end of the main sequence is useful for defining the age of the cluster because . ... 2) Some idea. 3) Good idea. ...

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• Reading Quiz PAUL J. GREEN - ConcepTests
• The AstroStat Slog Blog Archive my first AAS. IV. clustering
• The AstroStat Slog Blog Archive [ArXiv] Bimodal Color Distribution in GCS,

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

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• The Pleiades
• I-GALFA Reveals Dynamic Events in Our Galaxy
• Cold Hydrogen Clouds in the Milky Way: An Evolutionary Missing Link?

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is set against millions of glowing stars from the brightest part of the Milky Way тАФ a region so dense with stars that barely any dark sky is seen across the picture. ...

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• The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* | ESO
• Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Corona Australis | ESO
• Panning across the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...

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... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Stability of cold fronts in clusters of galaxies " . E. Churazov (IKI, MPA) . ... One of the insteresting results of Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories is the discovery of sharp structures in the X-ray surface brightness of galaxy clusters. These structures (a.k.a. cold fronts) are likely associated with the contacted discontinuities formed when a hot gas flows over a colder gravitationally bound gas cloud. ...

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• (S-7a) The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy

... We present V and I photometry for a sample of globular cluster candidates in the Virgo galaxy M87. ... A comparison with the color distribution of globular clusters in the Milky Way shows that M87 contains a large population of red clusters that is virtually absent in our Galaxy. ... Increasingly accurate measurements of the colors and metallicities of globular clusters in distant galaxies are beginning to shed new light on, and provoke new questions about, the origin of globular cluster systems. ...

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• Stars, Stellar Populations, and SNRs
• Spitzer Sage Observations of Large Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae
• Extragalactic Cepheid Distances by Calibrated Period - Luminosity-Color

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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• William Herschel
• Stars Beyond Maturity
• M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer

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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• ASP: Black Holes to Blackboards: Drifting Through Andromeda
• ASP: Monster Comet Promises Big Show
• ASP: More About Deep Space Objects and Cosmic Terms

... With the stars gamma Can and delta Can , it forms another asterisms called " the Asses and the Manger ". ... Formed by the stars delta Ori, epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ; in Latin America it is called the " Three Marys ". ... Built by the four stars alpha UMa, beta UMa, gamma UMa and delta UMa . ... Formed by the four stars alpha Del , beta Del , gamma Del and delta Del . ... Also on Orion; the belt stars ( delta Ori , epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ), the sword and eta Ori build up this asterism. ...

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... This image shows a 7th magnitude star cluster, it's reflection nebula, an extended diffuse nebula and Barnard Dark Nebulae. The bright star at the top is omicron Persei (Atik). The cluster next to Atik is a star forming region with as many as 300 stars ranging from the brightest at B5 to low mass brown dwarfs. ... The obscuring dark areas are the Barnard Dark Nebulae 1 through 4. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

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• MAO NASU :: Topic: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black
• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies
• Pre-registration form

... In the past used to check pn/ MOS cross calibration Example of old vs new pn/ mos Residuals in the form of ratio data / model for PN data on MOS best fitting model Example of old vs new pn/ mos Residuals in the form of ratio data / model for PN data on MOS best fitting model ACIS S3 vs EPIC pn · · Same thing, only now we compare Chandra ACIS S3 with ... Flux cross-cal · · The new HRMA calibration impacts on the ACIS/EPIC flux cross calibration. ...

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• scisimf

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

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• Clustering Analysis Algorithms and Their Applications to Digital POSS-II