Sentences with phrase «young clusters of»

The dusty cloud, the results suggest, will likely evolve into one of the most massive young clusters of stars in our galaxy.
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.
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.
This picture shows the bright central region of this nebula which contains a very compact and very young cluster of stars.
This is another nebula surrouding a young cluster of stars including the fifth magnitude variable star S Monocerotis.
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.

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On the other side, young men and women in red sweatshirts strolled the line, offering free hot chocolate to the waiting clusters of fans.
And with 7billion on the planet (and growing), these «young people missing millions from their generation» should be thankful that clusters of cells can be medically removed, preventing unwanted births and (perhaps) even saving the human population from growing to a point of unsustainability.
About what a young boy in his class had said to a cluster of girls, how he referred to the girls» private body parts and what he wanted to do them, in such horrifyingly derogatory terms that this seasoned teacher could not even repeat it — and was at a rare loss as how to handle or move forward — beyond an immediate suspension.
Family clusters can give young people a different and sometimes better experience of what it means to belong to a family.
To facilitate this kind of ministry to youth, a pastor might ask several families in which the parent or parents are especially gifted in relating to youths to form a cluster that can include several young people with the family groups.
In a corner of the room, a cluster of younger chefs is blow - torching an avocado.
There are the markets, flower sellers, buskers, clowns, clusters of black - habited nuns, fresh - faced young priests, babbling Bernini fountains, clattering church bells.
Usually newborns and young infants need to eat every two to three hours, however cluster feeding may help your baby sleep for longer stretches of four to five hours at night.
DNAinfo reported Monday that the state Department of Taxation and Finance slapped BEDCO with $ 532,898 tax lien on Dec. 7, 2016, the same day the young girls were killed by scalding steam from a radiator in a cluster - site housing apartment.
Moshe Piller, the landlord of the apartment where the two young girls died, had been renting it to the city under its cluster homeless shelter program.
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, the research team has for the first time found young populations of stars within globular clusters that have apparently developed courtesy of star - forming gas flowing in from outside of the clusters themselves.
Yet recent discoveries of young stars in old globular clusters have scrambled this tidy picture.
A small cluster of stem cells in the brain seems to help mice stay young, and injecting extra stem cells helps them live longer.
Young star clusters and clouds of hydrogen that formed in our galaxy help trace the shapes of the Milky Way's arms, so astronomers are reasonably certain that it has a spiral structure (see right).
Chikako Yasui and Naoto Kobayashi at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues observed two extremely young star clusters in Cassiopeia 62,000 light years from the Milky Way's centre — over twice as far out as the sun — in a cloud of gas and dust named Digel Cloud 2.
The famous Trapezium Cluster of hot young stars appears towards the bottom of this image.
Large groups of young blue stars indicate the locations of star clusters and star - forming regions.
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.
The wide - field optical camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST)-- has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail.
The wide - field optical camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST)-- has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail, producing this beautiful new image.
But Paul Crowther of the University of Sheffield, examining images from the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hubble Space Telescope, identified four young stars (pdf) exceeding that mass in R136, a stellar cluster 165,000 light - years away.
Conventional wisdom says that globular star clusters are the stodgy old codgers of the universe, but it turns out that many of these clusters are young
Hidden in its gaping maw may be the Milky Way's most massive cluster of young stars.
The group of bright blue - white stars at the upper - left is the Trapezium Cluster — made up of hot young stars that are only a few million years old.
And deep within the heart of just about all of these stellar clusters are strange populations of stars called blue stragglers, which appear much younger than their companions, even though they should all be the same age.
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.
Some stars in globular clusters may be 15 billion years old, he says, but the great bulge at the center of the Milky Way — a younger part of the galaxy, according to conventional wisdom — actually holds stars that are 1 or 2 billion years older.
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.
The cluster contains thousands of stars less than 2.5 million years old, making it the best place to find the biggest young stars that have not yet exploded.
The Pleiades, sometimes called the Seven Sisters, is a cluster of many young stars.
Controls aged three years and older were characterised by a higher fraction of butyrate - producing species within Clostridium clusters IV and XIVa than was seen in the corresponding diabetic children or in children from the younger age groups, while the diabetic children older than three years could be differentiated by having an unusually high microbial diversity.
The researchers found that in children younger than three years, the combined abundance of the class Bacilli (notably streptococci) and the phylum Bacteroidetes were higher in diabetic children, whereas the combined abundance of the important (usually beneficial) Clostridium clusters IV and XIVa was higher in the healthy controls.
Fast - moving particles of hot dark matter are supposed to have «smeared out» the matter in the young Universe, making such giant clusters possible.
The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years from Earth, finding that the percentage of young stars in clusters declines from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years from M83's center, 19 % of young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.
Glowing pink clouds of hydrogen gas harbor countless newborn stars, and the bluish - white hue of young star clusters litter the landscape.
This snowballing effect would occur in the centres of young, dense star clusters, producing a black hole when the accumulated stars explode and die.
The newfound young star clusters lie thousands of light - years below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a flat spiral disk seen in this artist's conception.
It contains a cluster of hot young stars.
The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.
The team compared the positions of these galaxies with the location of a cluster of young galaxies 11.5 billion light - years from Earth in SSA22 which had been studied in visible light by the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
Recent surveys of young star clusters indicate that relatively small objects — less than 13 times Jupiter's size, for instance — are common.
With an age that's only 2 % of the sun's, the Pleiades cluster is so young that its stars still drift through space together.
A cluster of young, pulsating stars discovered at the far side of the Milky Way may mark the location of a previously unseen dark - matter dominated dwarf galaxy hidden behind clouds of dust.
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)
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