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Title: Young and Exotic Stellar Zoo
Post by: Orstio on March 22, 2005, 06:55:24 PM
http://www.everything-science.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=2
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ESO's Telescopes Uncover Super Star Cluster in the Milky Way
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ESO PR Photo 09a/05 is a composite image of the super star cluster Westerlund 1 from 2.2-m MPG/ESO Wide-Field Imager observations. The image covers a 5 x 5 arcmin sky region. The foreground stars appear blue, while the hot massive members of the cluster look orange, and the cool massive ones come out red
Super star clusters are groups of hundreds of thousands of very young stars packed into an unbelievably small volume. They represent the most extreme environments in which stars and planets can form.

Until now, super star clusters were only k. . .

Title: Re: Young and Exotic Stellar Zoo
Post by: Dingo1 on March 24, 2005, 05:30:35 AM
This cluster looks like it would be a good place to have several telescopes permanantly pointed to it for researching and observing super-nova's, the creation of black-holes, ect.ect.  as this cluster should age rapidily due to the volume of large stars, as well as the combined effect of steller radiation would age the stars even faster


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