Sentences with phrase «massive young clusters»

The dusty cloud, the results suggest, will likely evolve into one of the most massive young clusters of stars in our galaxy.

That suggests the Dragonfish is the brightest and most massive young cluster discovered so far, with a total mass of around 100,000 times the mass of the sun.

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Hidden in its gaping maw may be the Milky Way's most massive cluster of young stars.

Westerlund 1 thus appears to be the most massive compact young cluster yet identified in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's... view image

«This particular source of gamma rays was found towards an unusual cluster of stars which harbours one of the Milky Way's most massive and energetic young stars, a luminous blue variable star called LBV1806 - 20,» says Associate Professor Gavin Rowell, from the University of Adelaide's High Energy Astrophysics Group and leader of Australia's participation in HESS.

The scientists speculate that the gas may be blown outward by the strong stellar winds and supernova explosions from numerous massive young stars in a cluster.

We find that the young stellar population in AFGL333 lacks massive stars, compared to other known clusters in main W3 complex including IC 1795 and W3 - Main.

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 iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

The prevalence of massive clusters in the young universe can help constrain the size and expansion history of the universe.

This young cluster of about 3,000 stars in our Milky Way is called Westerlund 2 and contains some of the galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

The discovery of hot ultraviolet stars in globular clusters proved to be a real surprise to astronomers in the 1970s, who thought that only young, massive stars could shine in the ultraviolet.

Stothers, R.B., 1985: Evolution of massive stars in very young clusters and associations.