... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina , lies at a distance of about 8000 light years, and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars. A study of NGC 3293 implies that the blue stars are only about 6 million years old, whereas the cluster's dimmer, redder stars appear to be about 20 million years old. If true, star formation in this open cluster took at least 15 million years. ... Star Cluster Messier 67 . ...

... August 23, 1996 . NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Explanation: Hot Blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina , lies at a distance of about 8000 light years, and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars. ... If true, star formation in this open cluster took at least 15 million years. ... About APOD | ...

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NGC 5986, a little-studied southern-hemisphere globular cluster, is remarkable in containing two very luminous A-F type stars, discovered by me in the 1970's. These objects are probably in their final evolution off the asymptotic giant branch. ... Determining the distance to NGC 5986 will help calibrate the absolute brightnesses of post-AGB A-F stars. ... NGC 5986: last updated 2001 December 20 . Mike Siegel and I have found a post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79 (NGC 1904). ...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999br in NGC 4900 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. ... Note that there is a very bright foreground star (mag about 11.3) located near the position of Supernova 1999br . ... Mag . ... vsnet-chat 1771 ] Host galaxy of SN1999br . ... from [ vsnet-alert 2870 ] SN 1999br in NGC 4900 . ... The host galaxy NGC 4900 has a rather peculiar appearance. ...

... Non-NGC Images . ... Bright nebula in Orion (and Horse Head)..... image . ... Diffuse nebula in Orion (M78)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Auriga (M37)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Gemini (M35)..... image ..... caption . ... Rosette nebula..... image ..... caption . ... Spiral galaxy in Cepheus..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in CMa (M41)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Monoceros (M50)..... image ..... caption . ... Galaxy ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions