Open star clusters like the one seen here are not just perfect subjects for pretty pictures. Most stars form within clusters and these clusters can be used by astronomers as laboratories to study how stars evolve and die. The cluster captured here by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory is known as IC 4651, and the stars born within it now display a wide variety of characteristics.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1534/
Kind regards,
Mgr. Viktor Votruba PhD
ESON Czech Republic
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
eson-czech@eso.org
19. srpna 2015
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11. srpna 2015: A new instrument called GRAVITY has been shipped to Chile and successfully assembled and tested at the Paranal Observatory.
GRAVITY is a second generation instrument for the VLT Interferometer (VLTI ...
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