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. ...

... 2014 January 23 . Double Cluster in Perseus . ... Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884 , both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. ... Visible toward the upper left of the wide field of view is another, smaller open star cluster, NGC 957 , also of similar age, distance, and possibly related to the more famous Double Cluster in Perseus. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars . ... Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. ... Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover . ... What does the Curiosity rover look like on Mars? ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033 . ... Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater . ... If you could stand on Mars, what would you see? ... The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity . ... First page ] Prev. ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

. F IGURE . 13. The (a) metallicity and (b) age distributions of the globular clusters of Galactic origin. Different shadings are used to show the thick-disk and old-halo clusters. The curves are Gaussian fits to the corresponding histograms. discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure .

This animation shows a galaxy cluster with two mass concentrations (the pink shading indicates the projected mass density) lensing a background field of faint blue galaxies. ... Inside the Einstein ring radius one has radial arcs, and right in the center of the cluster there are demagnified images. The highest magnifications occur at the Einstein ring radius, giving the large tangential arcs. ... Abell 2218 and CL2244-02 are clusters with tangential arcs. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

... 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. ...

... 2000 August 4 . M15: Dense Globular Star Cluster . ... In fact, only 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, M15 is one of the most densely packed globular star clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy. This stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of M15 shows thousands of individual stars across the central 10 or so light-years of the cluster, also cataloged as NGC 7078. ... Globular star clusters harbor from a hundred thousand up to a million stars and roam the Milky Way halo. ...

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! ...

... Astronomers experienced the same thing, only this time they photographed a dwarf galaxy , and a globular cluster blocked the view. ... A globular cluster is a collection of old stars that orbits a galaxy. ... This particular globular cluster is orbiting the Milky Way our home galaxy. ... Light travels faster than anything in the world, so you could say that this cluster is enormous! ... Astronomers are lucky that the globular cluster insisted on being on camera, as they can now study it in detail. ...

... We describe a tool in the PCIPS environment for finishing the job of globular cluster photometry started by DAOPHOT II: starting with the instrumental magnitudes derived by DAOPHOT II, DASHA can automatically produce final color-magnitude diagrams. ... DASHA can automate the whole process of globular cluster photometry, from instrumental magnitude lists produced by DAOPHOT II, to final color-magnitude diagrams. ... DASHA is oriented towards star lists produced by DAOPHOT II as source data. ...