Sentences with phrase «of open cluster»

Wide - field imaging surveys on moderate - size telescopes can now efficiently derive rotation periods for hundreds to thousands of open cluster members, providing unprecedented sample sizes which are ripe for exploration.

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.

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

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.

The Pleiades is an example of an open cluster.

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.

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.

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

Asteroseismology of the open clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6811, and NGC 6819 from nineteen months of Kepler photometry

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

Conversely, those who are «open and affirming» will characteristically maintain a critique of consumer capitalism, and consensus on a whole cluster of other issues.

With a new cluster of new franchise development agreements, Captain D's plans to open more than a dozen locations throughout the year.

Clusters of the white flowers whirled down from green foliage, to be flattened against scorching asphalt as car after car completed the tortuous thousand miles of open road of Italy's Mille Miglia.

A cluster of top - seeded women succumbed to self - doubt and shaky mechanics during a volatile first week at the Open

There's a cluster of golfers near the top of the leaderboard, setting up what seems likely to be a dramatic, wide - open weekend in Georgia.

More than half of the 16,026 open violations at all the city's cluster sites are in buildings owned by just 11 landlords.

At a technical briefing after the mayor's speech, at which de Blasio took no questions, Office of Management and Budget Director Dean Fuleihan said the shelter plan wouldn't add any new costs to the city's operating budget, because cluster sites and hotels are being phased out at the same time new shelters are being opened.

The de Blasio administration has said its first priority is to end the use of «cluster housing» as it also opens new stand - alone shelters across the city.

It is one of the most spectacular open star clusters in the whole sky.

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

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

«These new results show that planets in open star clusters are about as common as they are around isolated stars — but they are not easy to detect,» adds Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany), co-author of the new paper [6].

Some of the most eye - opening new research comes from the western Amazon, where archaeologist Denise Schaan of the Federal University of Pará in Brazil has mapped clusters of mysterious land sculptures dug between 700 and 2,000 years ago.

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

The loose speckling of stars in this new ESO image is the open star cluster IC 4651, located within the Milky Way, in the constellation of Ara (The Altar), about 3000 light - years away.

Two of the sky's finest open star clusters lurk in the southern part of Scorpius the Scorpion.

Researchers can transform the lab from a large, open - plan office to a cluster of 6 apartments or 12 hotel rooms, where study participants might live for weeks or even months.

It can be easily distinguished by its spherical acorns covered with a dense pattern of irregularly placed scales that completely conceal the nut, except for a tiny opening at the top, and which are arranged in dense clusters on upright spikes.

Reported in Nature Methods today, the new open source computer tool called Single Cell Consensus Clustering (SC3) was shown to be more accurate and robust than existing methods of analysing single - cell RNA sequence data, and is freely available for researchers to use.

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.

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.

The team also showed that calcite associated with two seismic events in the earthquake cluster indicates very rapid carbon dioxide degassing, which can occur when fluid under high pressure is released — like opening the top of a shaken bottle of soda.

Fukuda, who profusely praised Chinese authorities for their handling of the crisis in his opening statement, said that the few family clusters identified so far in China could be due either to common exposure or to «limited person - to - person transmission.»

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.

About a dozen of these shops are clustered in less than two blocks across the street from Puerto Maldonado's open - air market, the town's main shopping area.

They observed that, while the open ocean consists of many waves, most of which move independently of each other, some waves cluster together in a single wave group, rolling through the ocean together.

During the first close approach just prior to four billion years in the future, the sky is ablaze with new star formation, which is evident in vast numbers of emission nebulae and open young star clusters (Image: NASA / STScI)

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

Our latest publication is the Atlas of Open Star Clusters for which we have a PDF sample of the content for you to download.

The collection of very bright, young stars above and to the right of Eta Carinae is the open star cluster Trumpler 14.

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 discoveopen 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 discoveOpen 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.

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The additional 42 entries were mostly discovered earlier, and most of them (32) are open star clusters; there are no planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, elliptical and lenticular galaxies among them, and the only spiral galaxy in this list is our own, the Milky Way.

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.