Sentences with phrase «youngest star cluster in»

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

Hidden in its gaping maw may be the Milky Way's most massive cluster of young 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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.

NGC 1333 is a star cluster populated with many young stars that are less than 2 million years old — a blink of an eye in astronomical terms for stars like these expected to burn for billions of years.

The scientists speculate that the gas may be blown outward by the strong stellar winds and supernova explosions from numerous massive young stars in a cluster.

We find that the young stellar population in AFGL333 lacks massive stars, compared to other known clusters in main W3 complex including IC 1795 and W3 - Main.

They believe the gas may be driven by supernova explosions and the intense stellar winds from an unseen cluster of young stars in one of our Galaxy's spiral arms.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have identified 152 X-ray sources, including 95 new young stellar objects (YSOs) in Serpens South star - forming cluster.

A nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars.

The young open cluster NGC 6530 associated with the Lagoon Nebula M8 was classified as of Trumpler type «II 2 m n» (see e.g. the Sky Catalog 2000), meaning that it is detached but only weakly concentrated toward its center, its stars scatter in a moderate range of brightness, it is moderately rich (50 — 100 stars), and associated with nebulosity (certainly, with the Lagoon nebula).

Open clusters are distributed in the Galaxy very similarly to young stars.

The stars in the cluster in the centre of the Omega nebula are very young with an average age of about 1 million years.

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.

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

He analyzed the binary star known as HD 142527, located in the Scorpius - Centaurus cluster of young stars.

The Orion Trapezium is a cluster of young stars still in the process of forming.

Initially estimated to be 12 to 50 million years old, the object shares the same motion as stars in the young Omicron Velorum cluster (IC 2391), which resides around 450 light - years away in Constellation Vela, next to Columba.

Trapezium (Theta1Orionis) is a star cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula consisting of more than 1,000 young stars crowded into a space about four light - years in diameter (roughly the distance between the Sun and the next nearest star).

These nurseries give birth to clusters of stars that represent the ideal markers for tracing the position of spiral arms, as the relatively young groups of stars have not yet had the time to drift away from the region in which they were created.

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.

The Trapezium Cluster is among the very youngest (open) clusters known, with new stars still forming in this region.

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

Clusters of luminous, young blue stars can be seen to have formed in and around the dark, gas - and dust - rich band that bisects the «Hamburger Galaxy» (more).

The discovery of hot ultraviolet stars in globular clusters proved to be a real surprise to astronomers in the 1970s, who thought that only young, massive stars could shine in the ultraviolet.

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