Sentences with phrase «many open clusters»

The move follows a similar announcement by Amazon, which recently opened a cluster of data centres around Montreal.

Such a collision would shatter a fragile open cluster, but no one had ever witnessed one.

In tens of millions of years, this will be swept away and only an open cluster of stars will remain.

Despite careful searches, no planets have been found in a globular cluster and less than six in open clusters.

[3] Most open clusters dissipate after a few tens of million years.

Open clusters are groups of stars that have formed together from a single cloud of gas and dust in the recent past.

[1] The open cluster Westerlund 1 was discovered in 1961 from Australia by Swedish astronomer Bengt Westerlund, who later moved from there to become ESO Director in Chile (1970 - 74).

The Milky Way is known to contain over a thousand of these open clusters, with more thought to exist, and many have been studied in great depth.

At a mere 500 000 years old — a small fraction of the Pleiades open cluster's age of 115 million years — Trumpler 14 is not only one of the most populous clusters within the Carina Nebula, but also the youngest.

It forms a close binary with another massive star within the open cluster, meaning that the two orbit around a shared centre of mass.

Around 1100 open clusters have so far been discovered within the Milky Way, although many more are thought to exist.

It lies within the Milky Way, approximately 4600 light - years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, and consists of many sibling stars loosely bound together in what is known as an open cluster.

Open clusters like NGC 2367 are a common sight in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, and tend to form in their host's outer regions.

An open cluster is generally expected to survive for a few hundred million years before it is completely dispersed.

In general, a competitive advantage thus shifts toward nontrustworthy players when going from closed to open clusters.

Globular clusters, which are found in the halo of a galaxy, contain considerably more stars and are much older than the less dense galactic, or open clusters, which are found in the disk.

M7 is a relatively close open cluster and lies less than 1,000 light years away, it can even be seen with the naked eye!

The Pleiades is an example of an open cluster.

Open clusters are located in the spiral arms or the disks of galaxies.

Open clusters are loosely bound collections of up to a few thousand stars.

The Soul Nebula is an open cluster of stars surrounded by a cloud of dust and gas over 150 light - years across and located about 6,500 light - years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, near the Heart Nebula.

Dobbie, P., Day - Jones, A., Williams, K., Casewell, S., Burleigh, M., Lodieu, N., Parker, Q., Baxter, R. (2012) «Further investigation of white dwarfs in the open clusters NGC2287 and NGC3532», Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423, 2815 - 2828

The rotation periods delineate a tight sequence in the NGC6811 color - period diagram from ~ 1 day at mid... ▽ More We present rotation periods for 71 single dwarf members of the open cluster NGC6811 determined using photometry from NASA's Kepler Mission.

K2 - 136A c is the first Neptune - sized planet to be found orbiting in a binary system within an open cluster.

Abstract: We present rotation periods for 71 single dwarf members of the open cluster NGC6811 determined using photometry from NASA's Kepler Mission.

Astrophysics observations with K2 will include studies of young open clusters, bright stars, galaxies, supernovae, and asteroseismology.

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 discovered.

I shall remember this telescope most for two wonderful observations; gazing into the maw of Copernicus, and cleaving the double star components of epsilon Lyrae so cleanly that they looked like a small open cluster.

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.

It is a find open cluster of stars mainly between 10.

Open cluster Messier 23 (M23, NGC 6494) is another glorious sight for small telescopes and binoculars in the summer Milky Way.

Because open clusters are mostly young objects, they have chemical compositions that correspond to the enriched environment from which they formed.

The brightest open clusters are considerably fainter than the brightest globular clusters.

The young open cluster NGC 6530 associated with the Lagoon Nebula M8 was classified as of Trumpler type «II 2 m n» (see e.g. the Sky Catalog 2000), meaning that it is detached but only weakly concentrated toward its center, its stars scatter in a moderate range of brightness, it is moderately rich (50 — 100 stars), and associated with nebulosity (certainly, with the Lagoon nebula).

Located in the constellation Taurus the Bull, the Pleiades is an open cluster of stars about 400 light years distant.

It became possible in the 1990s to discover very young open clusters that previously had been entirely hidden in deep, dusty regions.

These two features have disastrous consequences as far as their ultimate fate is concerned, because open clusters are not sufficiently gravitationally bound to be able to withstand the disruptive tidal effects in the Galaxy (see star cluster: Open clusters).

These objects can be subdivided into three types: globular clusters, open clusters, and stellar associations.

It lies in the northwest part of (6:55:18.7 +25:22:32.5, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Gemini, the Twins — west of Mebsuta (Epsilon Geminorum), northeast of Mu (Teja) and Eta (Propus) Geminorum, northwest of Zeta (Mekbuta) and Delta (Wasat) Geminorum, and east of open cluster M35.

Most open clusters have small masses on the order of 50 solar masses.

Judging from the sample of open clusters within 3,000 light - years of the Sun, only half of them can withstand such tidal forces for more than 200 million years, and a mere 2 percent have life expectancies as high as 1 billion years.

Open clusters are distributed in the Galaxy very similarly to young stars.

Globular cluster NGC 1850 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Most of the cluster consists of yellow stars; the bright white stars are members of a second, open cluster about 200 light - years beyond NGC 1850.

This video shows how to find the open cluster, M41, in Canis Major.

The peak absolute luminosity appears to be about 50,000 times the luminosity of the Sun, but the largest percentage of known open clusters has a brightness equivalent to 500 solar luminosities.

Our team at the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) collaborates on a large project to monitor the fits and growth spurts of baby stars in the open cluster NGC 2264.

There is some evidence that the younger open clusters are more densely concentrated in the Galaxy's spiral arms, at least in the neighbourhood of the Sun where these arms can be discerned.

Measured ages of open clusters agree with the conclusions that have been reached about their life expectancies.

These objects are the open clusters, so called because they generally have a more open, loose appearance than typical globular clusters.

This open cluster is smaller than IC 4756.