Young stars at home in an ancient cluster 🔭🌌
Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor’s collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration. It is a globular cluster, and at over 10 billion years old is one the most ancient collections of stars known. It has been blazing for well over twice as long long as our Solar System has existed.
NGC 6752 contains a high number of “blue straggler” stars, some of which are visible in this image. These stars display characteristics of stars younger than their neighbours, despite models suggesting that most of the stars within globular clusters should have formed at approximately the same time. Their origin is therefore something of a mystery.
Studies of NGC 6752 may shed light on this situation. It appears that a very high number — up to 38% — of the stars within its core region are binary systems. Collisions between stars in this turbulent area could produce the blue stragglers that are so prevalent.
Lying 13 000 light-years distant, NGC 6752 is far beyond our reach, yet the clarity of Hubble’s images brings it tantalisingly close.
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA
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So happy to be part of this amazing institute #HIFMB (Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity) which is full of brilliant brains. Today we’ve had a retreat to talk about research, career paths, PhD projects & other mind blowing stuff. It’s great to see scientist from this very interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary institute talking about all kind of research from all those different perspectives, and to see all the differences but also similarities between researchers. 🌊 #HIFMBretreat#research#marinescience#marinebiodiversity#marinegovernance#oldenburg#scientists#academia
A great opportunity for those who are interested to contribute to NASA’s exploration of Mars. You can help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
NASA is asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet’s atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s even though ample evidence suggests Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed Cloud spotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft’s Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you’d like to join in, head to the link in my bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
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Help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
We're asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet's atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth's even though ample evidence suggests #Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed #Cloudspotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft's Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that's invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you'd like to join in, head to the link in bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
Credit: NASA/JPL.
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Help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
We’re asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet’s atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s even though ample evidence suggests #Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed #Cloudspotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft’s Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you’d like to join in, head to the link in bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
#science#SolarSystem#NASA#JPL