where are open star clusters found
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Open cluster Open clusters have been found only in spiral and irregular galaxies, in which active star formation is occurring. Young open clusters may still be contained within the molecular cloud from which they formed, illuminating it to create an H II region.
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Nebula One of the best examples of this is the Crab Nebula, in Taurus. The supernova event was recorded in the year 1054 and is labelled SN 1054. The compact object that was created after the explosion lies in the center of the Crab Nebula and is a neutron star. Other nebulae may form as planetary nebulae.xamples of these types of nebulae are the Rosette Nebula and the Pelican Nebula. The size of these nebulae, known as HII regions, varies depending on the size of the original cloud of gas. New stars are formed in the nebulae.
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What are some famous nebulae inside of the Milky Way Galaxy? Most of the nebulae inside the MW are planetary nebulae, like the Ring nebula, the Cat's Eye, the Spider, and so on. Some are supernova remnants such as the Vela and Crab. Some are stellar nurseries, such as the Tarantula and the Trifid. Some are just clouds of dark matter, like the Horsehead.
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Barred spiral galaxy Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is classified as a barred spiral galaxy. Edwin Hubble classified spiral galaxies of this type as SB (spiral, barred) in his Hubble sequence, and arranged them into sub-categories based on how open the arms of the spiral are. barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars.
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Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Spiral Arms, New Study Confirms “It’s exciting that we are able to use the distribution of young massive stars to probe the structure of the Milky Way and match the most intense region of star formation with a model with four spiral arms,” said lead author Dr James Urquhart of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.
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Globular cluster Of the globular clusters within the Milky Way, the majority are found in a halo around the galactic core, and the large majority are located in the celestial sky centered on the core. In 1918, this strongly asymmetrical distribution was used by Shapley to make a determination of the overall dimensions of the galaxy.
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Are all the visible stars within the Milky Way? Yes, all the visible stars are in the Milky Way. It takes a huge telescope and long time exposures to resolve stars in other galaxies. In fact, the farthest star we can see with the naked eye under the best of conditions is probably epsilon Aurigae-A, which is almost 8000 light years away.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side The researchers, in South Africa and Japan, discovered five stars known as Cepheids shining on the opposite side of the Milky Way's disk, 72,000 to 99,000 light-years from Earth. All five stars lie behind the galactic center, which is in the constellation Sagittarius about 27,000 light-years from us.
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Spiral galaxy Sc and SBc galaxies, for instance, have very loose arms, whereas Sa and SBa galaxies have tightly wrapped arms (with reference to the Hubble sequence). Either way, spiral arms contain many young, blue stars (due to the high mass density and the high rate of star formation), which make the arms so bright. Galactic bulge A bulge is a huge, tightly packed group of stars.
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Do You Know Your Nearest Star Cluster? Of course, none of these are actually the closest to us; the Pleiades is simply the brightest star cluster in the night sky. But if you can learn how to find the Pleiades, you can find our closest star cluster! Here’s how it goes.Image credit: Jerry Lodriguss.ut our nearest major star, alpha centauri, the yellow guy (below, found near the Southern Cross) is over four light years away from us. But not every star is as lonely as ours is! Stars, as you may know, don’t form one-at-a-time, in isolation.
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Orion Nebula The nebula is visible with the naked eye even from areas affected by some light pollution. It is seen as the middle star in the sword of Orion, which are the three stars located south of Orion's Belt.The star appears fuzzy to sharp-eyed observers, and the nebulosity is obvious through binoculars or a small telescope.he Orion Nebula contains a very young open cluster, known as the Trapezium due to the asterism of its primary four stars. Two of these can be resolved into their component binary systems on nights with good seeing, giving a total of six stars.
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Stellar Birth and Middle Age Figure 7. Two stars in the process of forming in the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. These proplyds (as they are called) are more gas cloud than star at this point and are feeling the effects of the strong stellar winds near them.MCs are needed for large scale star formation. The formation is so massive that it can be seen over a great distance-even in other galaxies, since OB stars and H II regions are very bright. However, not all stars are found in such groups, so there must be a way to do small scale star formation.
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- Perhaps the most famous image from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is that of the Crab Nebula. A nebula is a mixture of hot gas, dust and simple elements like hydrogen and helium. The Crab Nebula is approximately 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. The nebula itself is an astonishing 10 light-years in diameter. To put that into perspective, if the Sun were the size of a basketball, the Crab Nebula would be the size of planet Earth.
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population Population I consists of younger metal-rich hot white stars, many occurring in galactic clusters and forming the arms of spiral galaxies. Stars of population II are older, the brightest being red giants, and are found in the centre of spiral and elliptical galaxies in globular clusters. 7.
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Orionâs Belt Orion’s Belt is one of the most familiar asterisms in the night sky, along with the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross. It is formed by three massive, bright stars located in our galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Orion, the Hunter: Alnilam, Alnitak and Mintaka. Two of the three stars are supergiants. Orion’s Belt is easy to find in the night sky as it is located on the celestial equator and part of one of the most prominent stellar patterns in the northern sky, the hourglass-shaped constellation Orion. The asterism and the constellation are visible in northern latitudes from November to February.
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- The Horsehead Nebula, one of the most famous dark nebulae, is located in the constellation Orion. 1  Emission nebulae are huge bright gas clouds with irregular shapes and dimensions that span many light years across. Emission nebulae are where stars are born. When stars begin to shine, they heat up the remaining gas around them and that gas starts to shine as well. One of the most famous emission nebula is M42, which is located in the constellation Orion.
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The Dazzle of the Southern Sky The Dazzle of the Southern Sky The Dazzle of the Southern Sky. Stargazing Is Better in the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Cross, Milky Way and Carina Nebula, viewed from Kenya. São PAULO, Brazil — EARLIER this year, I visited Fernando de Noronha, an island off the northeastern coast of Brazil, only four degrees south of the Equator.
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- Star Clusters and the Shape of the Milky Way. Print. In the lesson on star clusters, you learned that these objects are excellent tracers of the size and shape of our galaxy. What this means is that since these groups of stars are part of our galaxy, their distribution in space helps define the boundaries of our galaxy.
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Scorpius Messier 80 (NGC 6093) is another globular cluster in Scorpius. It can be found halfway between [7516] alpha and [7522] - [7553] beta Scorpii. It is one of the densest globular clusters in the Milky Way, containing several hundred thousand stars. Messier 80 lies 32,600 light-years from Earth.
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- The Pleiades are near Orion. The Pleiades is an open star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology. The Pleiades is a white star cluster that is roughly 500 light years from Earth.
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High School Earth Science/Galaxies Galaxies are the biggest groups of stars and can contain anywhere from a few million stars to many billions of stars. Every star that is visible in the night sky is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. To the naked eye the closest major galaxy — the Andromeda Galaxy, shown in Figure below — looks like only a dim, fuzzy spot.alaxies are the biggest groups of stars and can contain anywhere from a few million stars to many billions of stars. Every star that is visible in the night sky is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. To the naked eye the closest major galaxy — the Andromeda Galaxy, shown in Figure below — looks like only a dim, fuzzy spot.
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- What is Brightest star of a open cluster? Some of the brightest stars in the open cluster are found in the  Plough or the Ursa Major just like the Epilson Ursai  Majoris. What is the brightest star in Pleiades? Alcyone (η Tau / η Tauri / Eta Tauri) is in the constellation Taurus.
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A Star is Born A Star is Born Molecular clouds are perfect star-forming regions because the combination of these atoms into molecules is much more likely in very dense regions. This photograph shows the Orion Nebula, an interstellar cloud in which star systems - and possibly planets - are forming. Our own solar system presumably formed as gravity caused the collapse of a similar large cloud of gas. The piece of cloud that formed our Solar System is known as the solar nebula.
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List of nearest exoplanets Fomalhaut is a star 25 light-years away with an exoplanet (Fomalhaut b) that has been directly imaged in 2013 by NASA. From the total of 3,726 known exoplanets orbiting around 2,792 different stars (as of January 1, 2018), only a small fraction are located in the vicinity of the Solar System. At the beginning of 2016, the nearest 74 exoplanets were confirmed to be located within 50 light-years (15.3 pc), while some 50 other exoplanets had been proposed to exist.
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- I LOVE LOVE LOVE the open roof concept of this place! I think it's one of the more unique features of this Lounge in the OC. Located at the CAMP in Costa Mesa, it shares its parking lot with a bunch of other stores located across the street from the Anti-Mall Lab. Parking: Deceiving.
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Lalande 21185 The fourth nearest star system to the Sun after Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, and Wolf 359. Lalande 21185 is located in the southeastern corner of Ursa Major, northwest of Alula Borealis (Nu UMa).oving perpendicular to the galactic plane at a high velocity of 47 km/s, Lalande 21185 appears to belong to the Galaxy's thick disk population and to be considerably older than the Sun.