Sentences with phrase «open star cluster»

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

Like most open star clusters, the stars in the cluster are slowly moving apart.

This makes it middle - aged by open star cluster standards.

Sol was probably born in a large open star cluster near a massive but rare, O - type star (like Theta1 Orionis C, the brightest of the four central stars of the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion nebula, at left) that exploded as a supernova.

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

There are over 1000 known open star clusters within the Milky Way, with a wide range of properties, such as size and age, that provide astronomers with clues to how stars form, evolve and die.

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

In many cases, one or more small open star clusters lie near...

A second open star cluster, Collinder 228 is also seen in the image, just below Eta Carinae.

Note the many details in the nebula, and the newly formed open star cluster NGC 6530 in the left (Eastern) part of the nebula.

We have also more images of the region of M8 and M20, which sometimes also include the nearby open star cluster M21.

This star is located only about 11.8 light - years (ly) from our Sun, Sol, just north of the center (08:29:48 +26:46.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Cancer, the Crab — northwest of the famous open star cluster M 44 (also known as the Beehive Cluster and Praesepe, Latin for «Manger») and Ascellus Australis (Delta Cancri).

«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].

A newly born open star cluster will remain.

On October 4, 2006, a team of astronomers announced the finding of evidence that Sol formed in a fragment (Solar nebula) of a giant molecular cloud (e.g., the Orion Cloud) of gas and dust that gave birth to a large open star cluster with hundreds to thousands of members.

Society for Nebulous Knowledge, Open Star Cluster in Sagittarius by Anabella Gaposchk circa 1903, silver gelatin photogram (baking soda) 2002 (8» x5»).

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.

One such beauty is NGC 299, an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light - years away.

NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light - years away.

Shashank Dholakia and Shishir Dholakia, Adrian C Wilcox High School, Santa Clara, California A Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large - Scale Photometric Algorithm for the «Crippled» Kepler Mission

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

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.

Messier 46 (M46) is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Puppis, the Stern.

There is an open star cluster, NGC 6530, of young, hot, blue stars probably only a few million years old.