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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.

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 Antennae galaxies, named for their insectlike appearance (left, from ground - based telescope) are two merging spiral galaxies that have spawned over 1000 young star clusters visible as bright blue spots from t

Glowing pink clouds of hydrogen gas harbor countless newborn stars, and the bluish - white hue of young star clusters litter the landscape.

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.

Recent surveys of young star clusters indicate that relatively small objects — less than 13 times Jupiter's size, for instance — are common.

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)

Trumpler 14 is the largest and youngest star cluster in the Carina Nebula.

The sharp «eye» of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiant (Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)-RRB-

The sharp «eye» of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiant

NASA image displaying the location of young star clusters pinpointed from data collected by NASA's WISE spacecraft

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Possibly it beefed up by colliding and merging with other young stars in the cluster.

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.

At that time, the sun likely resembled Iota Horologii, because the star is young: it's thought to have escaped from the Hyades star cluster, which is just 600 million years old, or about one - eighth our sun's present age.

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.

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.

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.

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 100,000 - light - year - long structure identified in the Hubble data is dotted with 19 young, blue star clusters like pearls on a string, evenly spaced and separated by 3,000 light - years.

Known since ancient times as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades Cluster (below, right) contains about 1,000 young stars that formed roughly 100 million years ago.

The Pleiades, sometimes called the Seven Sisters, is a cluster of many young stars.

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.

But the star cluster has to be very dense and very young — about 10 million years old — to allow this to happen, say the researchers.

This snowballing effect would occur in the centres of young, dense star clusters, producing a black hole when the accumulated stars explode and die.

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.

Young blue stars, star clusters and tidal dwarf galaxies are born in these tidal debris.

A few globular - cluster stars, however, shine in blue - white light — suggesting something anomalously hot, young and bright.

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.

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

However, it will also be used to study many other astronomical phenomena including young stars, evolved stars, supernovae, star clusters, and galaxies.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

The group of bright blue - white stars at the left is the Trapezium Cluster, hot young stars that are only a few million years old.

The feature can be easily spotted as a bright blue ring, which is shining with the light of countless star clusters comprised of hot, young stellar bodies.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

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.

«This particular source of gamma rays was found towards an unusual cluster of stars which harbours one of the Milky Way's most massive and energetic young stars, a luminous blue variable star called LBV1806 - 20,» says Associate Professor Gavin Rowell, from the University of Adelaide's High Energy Astrophysics Group and leader of Australia's participation in HESS.

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.