News tagged with globular clusters
Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary ...
Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? ...
Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, contain some of the oldest surviving stars in the Universe. A new international study of globular clusters outside our Milky Way Galaxy ...
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Oldest Known Objects Are Surprisingly Immature
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Some of the oldest objects in the Universe may still have a long way to go, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These new results indicate that globular clusters might be surprisingly ...
Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
Antennae Galaxies
May 19, 2008 |
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This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star ...
Astronomers find the most distant star clusters hidden behind a nearby cluster
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Astronomers have discovered the most distant population of star clusters ever seen, hidden behind one of the nearest such clusters to Earth. At a distance of more than a billion light-years, the newly discovered ...
Omega Centauri -- The Glittering Giant of the Southern Skies
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Sparkling away at magnitude 3.7 and appearing nearly as large as the full moon on the southern night sky, Omega Centauri is visible with the unaided eye from a clear, dark observing site. Even through a modest ...
Hubble finds multiple stellar 'baby booms' in a globular cluster
May 02, 2007 |
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New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have overturned conventional ideas about the early life of some massive globular clusters, showing that they can go through several periods of intense ...
Astronomers report mysterious giant star clusters
Jan 10, 2006 |
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An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious "super star clusters" Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. These star ...
Astronomers discover how white dwarf stars get their 'kicks'
Dec 04, 2007 |
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University of British Columbia astronomer Harvey Richer and UBC graduate student Saul Davis have discovered that white dwarf stars are born with a natal kick, explaining why these smoldering embers of Sun-like stars are found ...
Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed by Hubble
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Twenty-four unusual stars, 18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images. The stars are white dwarfs, a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of ...
Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
Feb 06, 2007 |
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.
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