... John Glenn: Discovery Launch . ... At left, the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B. At right, on Thursday October 29, Discovery blasts through a bright afternoon sky returning Senator John Glenn to space over 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. ... Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space. ...

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... 2000 October 22 . Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 . ... Explanation: Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters . The above open cluster, M11 , contains thousands of stars and is just over three thousand light years distant. ... Open clusters , also called galactic clusters, contain fewer and younger stars than globular clusters . Also unlike globular clusters, open clusters are generally confined to the plane of our Galaxy . ... About APOD | ...

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ACS is currently unavailable for observations . ... Imaging Scattered Light from Debris Disks Discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope Around 20 Sun-like Stars . Abstract . ... Todd Henry, Georgia State University Research Foundation . ... HST Observations of Astrophysically Important Visual Binaries . ... The life history of a gamma-ray burst . ... These protoplanetary disks (proplyds) have been identified from HST observations of several young star-forming regions, including Orion and Carina. ...

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... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... 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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Many intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds exhibit very unusual features in their colour-magnitude diagrams that suggest they may have formed their stars over periods spanning hundreds of millions of years per cluster. ... Nonetheless, this interpretation is enticing in the context of the formation of ancient globular clusters, which almost always exhibit puzzling abundance patterns that apparently require multiple episodes of star formation to explain. ...

... I Please find selected by IKI time intervals proposed for interagency joint bounary layer study: . at October 2000, with CLUSTER II . at July - September 2000 . at April - June 2000 . at Mach - April 2000 . II Visualisation of the time intervals selected by Nelson Maynard: . ... III The extended list of the time intervals seleced by IKI for bounary layer study at Januay - October 2000: . ... April . ... October, with CLUSTER II . ... vprokhor@iki.rssi.ru . ... ssavin@iki.rssi.ru . ...

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... PhD Yale University, Astronomy, 2015 . ... MS, MPhil Yale University, Astronomy, 2011 . ... Plunkett, Adele L. ; Arce, H��ctor G.; Corder, Stuartt A.; Dunham, Michael M.; Mardones, Diego; Garay, Guido 2014, ApJ, 803, 22, ������Assessing molecular outflows and turbulence in the protostellar cluster Serpens South��� . ... Department of Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile April 2013 . ... Yale-University of Chile Meeting, New Haven, CT December 2011 . ...

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... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy Foundation . ... Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the latter, how? ... The Milky Way Galaxy has a system of roughly 150 globular clusters, which are all older than 9 billion years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

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