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Showing posts with label star cluster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star cluster. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Found near the Orion Nebula star cluster


Star cluster, which had previously been measured part of the spectacular Orion Nebula, is actually a separate creature, located in front of the nebula, according to a new study.

Scientists are using the Canada-French-Hawaii Telescope, located in Hawaii, discovered that the star cluster NGC 1980 is a separate group of massive stars in front of the Orion Nebula, which lies at a distance of about 1,500 light-years away and is one of the closest Earth "stellar nurseries". Accumulation unevenly scattered around the star iota Orion, located in the southern part of the "sword" of the constellation Orion.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Star cluster for the first time found a pair of black holes

M22 star cluster in our galaxy is located at a distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth. Administer to make a discovery by observing a super-large array radio telescopes located in New Mexico.

U.S. astronomers have detected about two separate black holes in the same star cluster M22, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The paper was published in the journal Nature, a summary of its results ScienceNow.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A star cluster has a secret


The ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the stunning globular star cluster Messier 4. This group consists of tens of thousands of antique stars is one of the closest and one of the most studied globular clusters. Recent research has exposed that one of its stars has unusual and surprising properties; apparently it is the secret of eternal youth.