STAR CLUSTERSStar clusters are both the youngest and oldest easily recognisable objects in the Galaxy. Globular clusters, like the magnificent southern naked-eye cluster 47 Tucanae (alongside) are the oldest star clusters known, with ages comparable with the age of the Universe itself. In contrast, young clusters such as NGC 3292 (AAT 10) are just a few million years old, brash newcomers in the Milky Way, and still associated with the gas and dust from which they have so recently formed. It is by study collections of stars such as these that astronomers can unravel the the complex story of stellar evolution. |
AAT
10. A young open cluster, NGC 3293
AAT 22. Dust cloud and the
open cluster NGC 6520
AAT 25. The Jewel Box cluster
in Crux, NGC 4755
AAT 29. The Trapezium stars
in the Orion Nebula
AAT 30. The stars that excite
the Trifid Nebula
AAT 35. NGC 2264 cluster
in the Rosette nebula
AAT 37. The cluster Trumpler
14 in the Carina nebula
AAT 40. The young Galactic cluster in NGC 3603
AAT 47. NGC 6611 and the
Eagle nebula, M16
AAT 68. The 30 Doradus cluster
in the LMC
AAT 75. Part of the NGC 6193
cluster (and NGC 6188)
AAT 80. The NGC 2818 cluster
and planetary nebula, NGC 2818A
AAT 90. NGC 6705, a young
open cluster, Messier 11
AAT 91. The old open cluster
Trumpler 5
AAT 92. NGC 6520 (and Barnard
86) wide angle view
UKS 5. The NGC 6530 cluster
(in the Lagoon nebula)
UKS 9. The NGC 2244 cluster
in the Rosette nebula
UKS 15. Star clusters north of the LMC
UKS 18. The Pleiades cluster
UKS 27. The Henize 44 nebula
and cluster in the LMC
UKS 28. The Henize 55 nebula
and cluster in the LMC
UKS 29. The clusters NGC 2264
and Trumpler 5 in Monoceros
David Malin
dfm@aaoepp.aao.gov.au
14 May, 2000