... 2012 April 9 . Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53 . Image Credit: ESA/Hubble , NASA . ... These unusual stars are known as blue stragglers and are unusually common in M53. ... By analyzing pictures of globular clusters like the above image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers use the abundance of stars like blue stragglers to help determine the age of the globular cluster and hence a limit on the age of the universe. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Credit Copyright: HST , ESA , NASA Explanation: "Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters. Though it appeared to Messier to be fuzzy and round and without stars, Messier 5 (M5) is now known to be a globular star cluster, 100,000 stars or more, bound by gravity and packed into a region around 165 light-years in diameter. ...

... STScI-PRC99-26 HUBBLE IMAGES A SWARM OF ANCIENT STARS This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. ... By analyzing the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images, including images taken through an ultraviolet filter, astronomers have found a large population of "blue stragglers" in the core of the cluster. These stars appear to be unusually young and more massive than the other stars in a globular cluster. ...

... Star Atlas . Product Reviews . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster . ... GLOBULAR CLUSTERS | ... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best-ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. ...

... Dr. Laura Watkins . ... A.T. Baldwin; L.L. Watkins ; R.P. van der Marel; P. Bianchini; A. Bellini; J. Anderson . ... L. Zhu; G. van de Ven; L.L. Watkins . ... P. Bianchini; M.A. Norris; G. van de Ven; E. Schinnerer; A. Bellini; R.P. van der Marel; L.L. Watkins ; J. Anderson . ... M. den Brok; G. van de Ven; R.C.E. van den Bosch; L.L. Watkins . ... L.L. Watkins ; G. van de Ven; M. den Brok; R.C.E. van den Bosch . ... L.L. Watkins ; N.W. Evans; G. van de Ven . ... L.L. Watkins ; N.W. Evans; J. An . ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...

... The Double Cluster . Also known as Caldwell 14, the naked-eye open clusters NGC 884 (Chi Persei) and NGC 869 (h Persei) are 7600 and 6800 light-years away, respectively. ... Each cluster has over 300 blue-white super-giant stars with a total of approximately 13,000 to 20,000 objects with ages ranging from 5.6 million to 3.2 milion years old. Takahashi Epsilon-180, Canon 20D DSLR, 9 Images x 300 seconds subframe, Total= 45 minutes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

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. ...

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. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... We have used ACS imaging to study the sizes of globular clusters around the early type galaxy NGC 4278. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... The Hubble Space Telescope . ... This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 6388, a dynamically middle-aged globular cluster in the Milky Way. ... A new study using Hubble data has discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars within them, suggesting that clusters can age at substantially different rates. ... NGC 6388 . ...

... Posts tagged ?globular cluster? ... Posted by hlee . Someone emailed me for globular cluster data sets I used in a proceeding paper, which was about how to determine the multi-modality (multiple populations) based on well known and new information criteria without binning the luminosity functions. ... On the other hand, obtaining globular cluster data sets was easy because of available data archives such as VizieR . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , CHASC , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon , Stars | ...

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 . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... Compact Binaries . ... Globular Clusters . ... Ultra-Compact binaries in globular clusters . ... It is known that UC X-ray binaries are more abundant in globular clusters compared to that found in Galactic fields (eg van der Sluys, Verbunt \ Pols 2005 and references therein). On the other hand no AM CVn systems have been found in globular clusters, while 20 are known in the Galactic field (for a review of AM CVn systems see Nelemans 2005). ...

Our early publications since 1990 till 1995 year . ... 7.Yu.I.Izotov, N.G.Guseva, V.A.Lipovetsky, A.Yu.Kniazev, J.A. Stepanian, 1990, Nature, 343, 238, Unusual low heavy-element abundance found in the blue compact galaxy SBS 0335-052 8.Yu.I.Izotov, N.G.Guseva, V.A.Lipovetsky, A.Yu,Kniazev, J.A.Stepanian, 1990, Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation, 1990, Kluwer Academic Publisher, p.235-240. ... New blue compact dwarf galaxies with low heavy-element abundances. ... 1993. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... 20.07.2007 . Latest SS-18 Launch Mission under Dnepr Program . ... The original launch date for the RS-20 (converted SS-18 ICBM, commercially known as Dnepr) cluster launch mission was scheduled for March 27, 2007. ... Mission profile . ...