Not exact matches
The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are
galaxies, some of which are among the
youngest and
most distant known.
Westerlund 1 thus appears to be the
most massive compact
young cluster yet identified in the Milky Way
galaxy.
Because the dust is generated by
young stars, such
galaxies could open a new window on the universe's
most active star - formation period.
The presence of these newly discovered protostars (the formative stage between a dense cloud of gas and a
young, shining star) suggests that the conditions necessary to birth low - mass stars may exist even in one of the
most turbulent regions of our
galaxy and possibly in similar locales throughout the universe.
The
most important targets include the
most distant (i.e., the
youngest)
galaxies as they emerged in the early Universe.
Kapteyn's star is the prototype member of one of these groups... The origin of Kapteyn's star within a merging dwarf -
galaxy sets its
most likely age around the
young halo's one (> 10 billion years) and should not be older than 13.7 billion years, which is the current estimate of the age of the Universe.»
Astronomers have made the
most detailed study yet of an extremely massive
young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's... view image
«Perhaps the
most surprising result is that
galaxies in the
young universe appear as diverse as they are today,» lead author Caroline Straatman, a recent graduate of Leiden University in the Netherlands, said in a statement Tuesday.
They then compared the two datasets with observations of the
young stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster, perhaps the
most well - studied
young star cluster in the Milky Way
galaxy.
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.
The dusty cloud, the results suggest, will likely evolve into one of the
most massive
young clusters of stars in our
galaxy.
An alien touring the
galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two
young inhabitants of the
most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.