#starcluster — Public Fediverse posts
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Keeping up with the latest #astronomy news in the stargazing app #StarWalk. #dso #deepskyobject #visiblegalaxies #galaxy #starcluster #skytonight #starwalk #aprilsky #deepspace starwalk.space/ay/en/dso-apr
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🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250
#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin
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The Westerlund 1 star cluster
This view combines x-ray data from Chandra, infrared data from JWST, and optical data from Hubble.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/an-eye-catching-star-cluster/
#Westerlund1 #starcluster #chandra #jwst #hubble #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #stars #nasa #xray #sapce
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📸 Messier 6 – The Butterfly Cluster
A cluster of about 100 young stars spreads its wings in Scorpius. Known as the Butterfly Cluster, Messier 6 glows with brilliant blue stars and one striking orange giant: BM Scorpii.
It spans 25 light-years near the heart of the Milky Way.📷 Xinran Li / NASA APOD
#Messier6 #ButterflyCluster #Astrophotography #Space #Scorpius #StarCluster #StellarSnap -
The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography
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Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521i/
#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier41 #opencluster #starcluster #beehivecluster #astrophotography #nightskyphotography
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Keeping up with the latest #astronomy news in the stargazing app #StarWalk. #dso #deepskyobject #visiblegalaxies #galaxy #starcluster #skytonight #starwalk #aprilsky #deepspace starwalk.space/ay/en/dso-apr
Best Deep-Sky Objects by Month... -
The #Merope #Nebula is a #reflectionnebula associated with the #star #Merope in the #Pleiades #starcluster, located in the #constellation #Taurus approximately 400 light-years away from #Earth. It reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in late November.
detailed information: https://astrocamp.eu/en/vdb-22-merope-nebula/
Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100
#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearskies #picture #photography #naturephotography #astrodon
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Seasonal Object: vdB 21 – Maia Nebula
The Maia #Nebula is a #reflectionnebula associated with the #star #Maia in the #Pleiades #starcluster, located in the #constellation #Taurus approximately 400 light-years away from #Earth. It reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in late November ...
detailed information: https://astrocamp.eu/en/vdb-21-maia-nebula/
Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100
#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearskies #picture #photography #naturephotography #astrodon
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I don't talk about astronomy nearly enough, so let's change that!
One of the most groundbreaking developments in astronomy has been the absolutely mind-blowing work the James Webb Space Telescope has been putting out in a fraction of the time it took the old Hubble Space Telescope to produce similar work. Here are a couple of recent images I find particularly remarkable.
S1 LMC N79 – Dorado
Honestly, this image is just beautiful to look at. It’s even more breathtaking when you consider that this is just one cloud within this star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which itself is an irregular galaxy located about 163,000 light-years from Earth. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and find yourself a suitably dark place, you can gaze up and see this whole other galaxy as a milky blotch in the night sky.
You can read more about this image here.
A gravitationally lensed supernova in MRG-M0138 – Cetus
It's pretty wild seeing the immense force of gravity contained within these galactic clusters warp distant points of light in these visually striking ways. Each arc is a galaxy far beyond the cluster itself that allow us to peer further back in time. Sometimes these warped images mirror themselves on the complete opposite side of the cluster, like ripples on a pond. In the case of this distant supernova, the light emanating from that cataclysmic event is being reflected in such a way that it's reappearing further down the length of the arc, making it seem as though there are two supernovae happening when in fact they are the same.
You can read more about this image here.
#astronomy #jameswebbspacetelescope #starcluster #stellarnursery #molecularcloud #largemagellaniccloud #supernova #gravitationallensing #galaxies
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Science Magazine Astronomy Covers - 2014
How far are these stars? Precise interferometry settles the question for the Pleiades.
Featuring a photography by Roberto Colombari.
https://www.science.org/toc/science/345/6200
#universe #stars #pleiades #starcluster #astrophotography #photography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #magazine #sciencemagazine #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research #interferometry
