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Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 11:27 am (This post was last modified: March 23, 2012 at 11:28 am by thesummerqueen.)
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Quote:The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked eye, yet Hubble can see over 250,000 individual stars shining in it.

Messier 9, pictured here, is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25,000 light-years from Earth, near the center of the Milky Way, so close that the gravitational forces from the galactic center pull it slightly out of shape.

Globular clusters are thought to harbor some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, born when the universe was just a small fraction of its current age. As well as being far older than the sun -- around twice its age -- the stars of Messier 9 also have a markedly different composition, and are enriched with far fewer heavier elements than the sun.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegall..._2204.html
Hearing that we are "star stuff" always seems to mean a bit more whenever NASA posts a picture like this.
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 11:28 am
Is it wrong that this picture arouses me a little bit?
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 11:36 am
Cool red dwarf stars that can live up to a trillion years, that's 1000000000000 years, make me very excited!! Think of what evolution could do in that time?
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Messier was #11.

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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 12:27 pm
To think that when Charles Messier compiled his catalogue, he intended it as a list of comet-looking objects to avoid.
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 12:37 pm
(March 23, 2012 at 11:28 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Is it wrong that this picture arouses me a little bit?

No it isn't. I'm having the same reaction.
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Quote:the stars of Messier 9 also have a markedly different composition, and are enriched with far fewer heavier elements than the sun.

It's also worth noting that stars of low metallicity such as these are one of many compelling lines of evidence of the age of the universe.
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 3:08 pm
That's just a picture made by scientists to keep themselves in business [/idiot]
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RE: Messier 9
March 23, 2012 at 3:21 pm
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I once saw this when I got punched in the face.
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