{"id":13016,"date":"2016-08-10T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2016-08-10T01:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:07:25","slug":"eso-can-zoom-in-on-young-stars-with-615-megapixel-image-of-sagittarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"ESO: Can zoom in on young stars with 615 megapixel image of Sagittarius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\" target=\"_blank\">ESO<\/a> (European Southern Observatory) report:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1628\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Lab in Sagittarius<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13017\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,460\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;ESO&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The small smattering of bright blue stars upper left of centre in this huge 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this open star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image was captured by the OmegaCAM camera attached to the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO\\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1470830400&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The star cluster Messier 18 and its surroundings&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The star cluster Messier 18 and its surroundings\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The small smattering of bright blue stars upper left of centre in this huge 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this open star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image was captured by the OmegaCAM camera attached to the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13017 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1.jpg\" alt=\"The small smattering of bright blue stars upper left of centre in this huge 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this open star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image was captured by the OmegaCAM camera attached to the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628a1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image, which also features red clouds of glowing hydrogen and dark filaments of dust, was captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXqX01c2aBI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This sequence takes the viewer from a wide view of the Milky Way deep into the central regions, where many bright star forming regions and star clusters can be seen. The final view is a close-up of the sky around the bright star cluster Messier 18 taken with the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory.\u00a0Credit:\u00a0ESO\/Digitized Sky Survey 2\/N. Risinger (<a href=\"http:\/\/skysurvey.org\/\">skysurvey.org<\/a>).\u00a0Music: Johan B. Monell (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johanmonell.com\/\">www.johanmonell.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Messier 18 was discovered and catalogued in 1764 by Charles Messier \u2014 for whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Messier_object\" target=\"_blank\">Messier Objects<\/a> are named \u2014 during his search for comet-like objects <a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a>. It lies within the Milky Way, approximately 4600 light-years away in the constellation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sagittarius_%28constellation%29\" target=\"_blank\">Sagittarius<\/a>, and consists of many sibling stars loosely bound together in what is known as an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_cluster\" target=\"_blank\">open cluster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are over 1000 known open star clusters within the Milky Way, with a wide range of properties, such as size and age, that provide astronomers with clues to how stars form, evolve and die. The main appeal of these clusters is that all of their stars are born together out of the same material.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_13018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13018\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13018\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,524\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eso1628c[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13018\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1.jpg\" alt=\"eso1628c[1]\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628c1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The small smattering of bright stars at the centre of this wide-field view is Messier 18, an open star cluster containing stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This picture, which also shows part of the bright Omega Nebula (Messier 17) at the top, was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Credit: ESO\/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>In Messier 18 the blue and white colours of the stellar population indicate that the cluster\u2019s stars are very young, probably only around 30 million years old. Being siblings means that any differences between the stars will only be due to their masses, and not their distance from Earth or the composition of the material they formed from. This makes clusters very useful in refining theories of star formation and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers now know that most stars do form in groups, forged from the same cloud of gas that collapsed in on itself due to the attractive force of gravity. The cloud of leftover gas and dust \u2014 or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molecular_cloud\" target=\"_blank\">molecular cloud<\/a> \u2014 that envelops the new stars is often blown away by their strong stellar winds, weakening the gravitational shackles that bind them. Over time, loosely bound stellar siblings like those pictured here will often go their separate ways as interactions with other neighbouring stars or massive gas clouds nudge, or pull, the stars apart.\u00a0Our own star, the Sun, was most likely once part of a cluster very much like Messier 18 until its companions were gradually distributed across the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWc9_jaBeiI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This video sequence takes a close look at a huge 615 megapixel image captured by the OmegaCAM camera attached to the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It shows the sky around the star cluster Messier 18. This small smattering of bright blue stars is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust.\u00a0Credit:\u00a0ESO.\u00a0Music: Johan B. Monell (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johanmonell.com\/\">www.johanmonell.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dark lanes that snake through this image are murky filaments of cosmic dust, blocking out the light from distant stars. The contrasting faint reddish clouds that seem to weave between the stars are composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ionization\" target=\"_blank\">ionised<\/a> hydrogen gas. The gas glows because young, extremely hot stars like these are emitting intense <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultraviolet\" target=\"_blank\">ultraviolet<\/a> light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to emit the faint glow seen in this image. Given the right conditions, this material could one day collapse in on itself and provide the Milky Way with yet another brood of stars \u2014 a star formation process that may continue indefinitely<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1535\/\"> (<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1535\/\" target=\"_blank\">eso1535<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This mammoth 30 577 x 20 108 pixel image was captured using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/surveytelescopes\/vst\/camera\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmegaCAM<\/a> camera, which is attached to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/surveytelescopes\/vst\/\" target=\"_blank\">VLT Survey Telescope<\/a> (VST) at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"1\"><\/a>[1] Messier 18 is also listed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_General_Catalogue\" target=\"_blank\">New General Catalogue<\/a> as NGC 6613<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13019\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13019\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,901\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;ESO\/IAU and Sky \\u0026amp; Telescope&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This chart shows the rich constellation of Sagittarius. Among the many star clusters in this part of the Milky Way lies Messier 18, a bright grouping of stars not far from the Omega Nebula (Messier 17). This picture plots most of the the stars visible on a dark clear night with the naked eye.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1470830400&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The star cluster Messier 18 in the constellation of Sagittarius&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The star cluster Messier 18 in the constellation of Sagittarius\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This chart shows the rich constellation of Sagittarius. Among the many star clusters in this part of the Milky Way lies Messier 18, a bright grouping of stars not far from the Omega Nebula (Messier 17). This picture plots most of the the stars visible on a dark clear night with the naked eye.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13019\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1.jpg\" alt=\"This chart shows the rich constellation of Sagittarius. Among the many star clusters in this part of the Milky Way lies Messier 18, a bright grouping of stars not far from the Omega Nebula (Messier 17). This picture plots most of the the stars visible on a dark clear night with the naked eye.\" width=\"500\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eso1628b1-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This chart shows the rich constellation of Sagittarius. Among the many star clusters in this part of the Milky Way lies Messier 18, a bright grouping of stars not far from the Omega Nebula (Messier 17). This picture plots most of the the stars visible on a dark clear night with the naked eye.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ESO (European Southern Observatory) report: Stellar Lab in Sagittarius\u00a0 The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this star cluster contains stars that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESO: Can zoom in on young stars with 615 megapixel image of Sagittarius<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3nW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27169,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27169","url_meta":{"origin":13016,"position":0},"title":"ESO: First ever binary star found near Milky Way&#8217;s supermassive black hole","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A new report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): First ever binary star found near our galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. 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