Star Clusters

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Star Clusters

• Yet another standard!
• Though, actually, Hubble used Globular Clusters
  as a standard to help prove that Andromeda was a
  Galaxy far far away

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Star Clusters

• Smaller than Galaxies!!! Found in galaxies!
• Globular Clusters a group of stars
• Like a globe 100,000 to Millions of Stars
• Orbit the galaxy, forming a Halo
• Open Clusters a group of stars
• No specific shape tens of stars to thousands of
  stars
• Can be found anywhere in the galaxy formed in
  the same location

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• Globular cluster

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M22
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Omega Centauri
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• Open
• Cluster
• M7

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• NGC 3293

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Makalii Pleiades Subaru Mata alii
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Another Pleiades