Not exact matches
Open clusters are groups of
stars that have
formed together from a single cloud of gas and dust in the recent past.
It
forms a close binary with another massive
star within the
open cluster, meaning that the two orbit around a shared centre of mass.
Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several
open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discove
open clusters and
star -
forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More
Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discove
Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.
Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several
open clusters and
star -
forming regions around the ecliptic to search for transiting planets around their low - mass constituents.
The density waves first concern interstellar matter, which is compressed,
forms diffuse nebulae which become starforming regions, and later
form (
open)
clusters and associations of young
stars, the most lumionous and conspicuous of which are massive, hot, blue and short - lived.
The models include a new wind braking law based on recent numerical simulations of magnetized stellar winds and specific dynamo and mass - loss prescriptions a... ▽ More We present new models for the rotational evolution of solar - like
stars between 1 Myr and 10 Gyr with the aim to reproduce the distributions of rotational periods observed for
star forming regions and young
open clusters within this age range.
We compare model predictions to the distributions of rotational periods measured for low mass
stars belonging to
star forming regions and young
open clusters.
The Trapezium
Cluster is among the very youngest (
open)
clusters known, with new
stars still
forming in this region.
Messier 17 is a
star forming region with an
open cluster, and it is part of a larger cloud of molecular gas found in the direction of Sagittarius.