Solar composition star cluster
noirlab_noao0203a June 3rd, 2002
Credit: WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF
New observations of the richly populated star cluster NGC 2420 taken by the refurbished WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory suggest that the cluster contains a multitude of clues about the history and evolution of the Milky Way. NGC 2420 consists of approximately 1,000 stars packed into a roughly spherical volume of space just 30 light-years in diameter. Because all of the stars in a star cluster have similar ages and initial compositions, star clusters can be used as a laboratory to study many different areas of astronomy. Further details of this interesting result can be found in NOAO press release 02-04.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0203a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao0203a
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- NGC 2420
- Credits
- WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF
- Release Date
- 2002-06-03T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0203a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- None
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 114.61746, 21.49944838
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 800.0
- Reference Pixel
- 412.9533539, 244.4279404
- Scale
- -0.000331, 0.000331
- Rotation
- -0.2399902571
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao0203a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao0203a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:34.137730
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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