Feb 28 2009
Spot a Star Cluster
This color-composite image of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, was taken by the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope and is part of the Digitized Sky Survey. Credit: NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech
It’s an ideal time to break out your binoculars and explore the profusion of open or galactic star clusters.
With the waxing Moon not overly bright this week, it’s an ideal time to break out your binoculars and explore the profusion of open or galactic star clusters now evident in our evening sky. Such clusters represent aggregations of young, recently born stars. They are in our galaxy’s local spiral arm, into whose interior we are looking at this time of year. These stars condensed out of the interstellar gas in this part of our Milky Way system. [...]
Source: Space.com – click here for full article
