Saturn Double Cluster in Perseus
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Neptune The Moon M57 Ring Nebula
The WHITE HOUSE The WHITE HOUSE The WHITE HOUSE Astronomy Night Astronomy Night Astronomy Night 2015 2015 2015 TOP 10 AUTUMN TREATS: Double Cluster in Perseus Saturn Saturn, Neptune, Moon Five stellar groups These two star clusters in our Milky Planet Saturn has beautiful rings Two galaxies Way galaxy were formed nearly and is the sixth planet from the simultaneously 13 million years ago. You are here Sun. NSF-funded scientists are Double Cluster Each cluster has a few thousand stars studying Saturn’s intense lightning Albireo Dumbbell but together are known as the Double storms, which are 10,000 times Cluster. NSF-funded astronomers Ring Triangulum stronger than those on earth. Did study clusters like these to unravel Galaxy: far you know Saturn is the least M13 away... mysteries about our galaxy. Did you dense planet in our solar system? know open star clusters are home to If you were able to place it in a many massive young stars? Those Does the Milky Way look like the giant tub of water, the planet bright orange stars are red giants in Andromeda Galaxy? If so, here’s where would float. the final stages of life. you would find the top 10 treats!
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Credits: (front) background: T.A. Rector/NOAO/AURA/NSF; silhouette: Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/Henry Roe, Lowell Observatory/Emily Pete Marenfeld (NOAO); moon: Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF (back) Credit: N.A.Sharp/NOAO/AURA/NSF Schaller, Insitute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i T.A.Rector and B.A.Wolpa/NOAO/AURA/NSF
M57 Ring Nebula The Moon Neptune The Ring Nebula is a spherical shell The Moon is Earth’s nearest celestial of glowing gas surrounding a white neighbor, and scientists believe it Neptune is the furthest planet dwarf star. Although this shell formed was created when a Mars-sized rock from the Sun in our solar system. just 7,000 years ago – the blink of smashed into Earth during the solar NSF-funded researchers investigate an eye in astronomical time – it and system’s formation ~4.5 billion years Neptune’s atmosphere, which is the white dwarf originated from a ago. NSF-funded scientists study the most active in the solar system, dying star billions of years old. Bright moon rocks to uncover what kind of causing tumultuous winds and planetary nebulae like M57 are easy objects may have impacted our own weather. Did you know Neptune has to view, and NSF-funded astronomers planet. Did you know the Moon is the strongest winds in the solar use them to test new astrophysical moving away from Earth about 1.5 system – 2100 km/hour, almost theories. Did you know a spoonful of inches per year? twice the speed of sound? white dwarf star material on Earth would weigh as much as an elephant?
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Credit: C.F.Claver/WIYN/NOAO/NSF Credit: Karen Pearce using a cellphone camera and telescope adapter Credit: Center for Adaptive Optics, UC Santa Cruz