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.
Not exact matches
However, it will also be used to
study many other astronomical phenomena including
young stars, evolved
stars, supernovae,
star clusters, and galaxies.
Gillian Wilson, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, added, «Fascinatingly, however, the
study found that the percentage of galaxies which had stopped forming
stars in those
young, distant
clusters, was much lower than the percentage found in much older, nearby
clusters.
Astrophysics observations with K2 will include
studies of
young open
clusters, bright
stars, galaxies, supernovae, and asteroseismology.
To make a detailed
study of the X-ray properties of
young stars, a team of astronomers, led by Elaine Winston from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, analyzed the Chandra X-ray data of both NGC 1333, located about 780 light - years from Earth, and the Serpens cloud, a similar
cluster of
young stars about 1,100 light - years away.