Sentences with phrase «young cluster»

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

Right, one young cluster root; notice that they are simple cluster roots (i.e., bottle - brush - like structures).

This picture shows the bright central region of this nebula which contains a very compact and very young cluster of stars.

Westerlund 1 is one of the most massive young clusters 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.

A team led by Ted von Hippel of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona, and Gerry Gilmore of the University of Cambridge has used an accurate new technique to assess the age of a relatively young cluster of stars.

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

And since the color and brightness of young clusters gives their ages — and therefore, the time since a collision began — astronomers hope to put together a series of snapshots of the entire collision process by looking at many examples of merging galaxies.

The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.

I will present our work on deriving robust ages from fitting the pre-main-sequence for young clusters, including the Taurus - Auriga and Chamaeleon regions.

Located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy, the Heart and Soul Nebulae are located in a region of active star formation containing many young clusters of stars.

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

Also added to the bottom of the list is the NGC 3603 cluster which is a very young cluster 20000 light years away.

This is another nebula surrouding a young cluster of stars including the fifth magnitude variable star S Monocerotis.

With an average stellar age of only one million years, the Trapezium is one of the youngest clusters known.

The occurance of the Delta Cephei star is consistent with the fact that it is not a very young cluster, its age may be about 90 million years (the Sky Catalog 2000 gives 89 million).

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.