NGC 411
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| Aufnahme des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops | |
| AladinLite | |
| Sternbild | Tukan |
| Position Äquinoktium: J2000.0 | |
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| Rektaszension | 01h 07m 55,7s [1] |
| Deklination | −71° 46′ 06″ [1] |
| Erscheinungsbild | |
| Helligkeit (visuell) | 12,2 mag [2] |
| Helligkeit (B-Band) | 11,0 mag [2] |
| Winkelausdehnung | 1,3' [2] |
| Rötung (Farbexzess E(B-V)) | 0,037 [1] |
| Physikalische Daten | |
| Zugehörigkeit | Kleine Magellansche Wolke [2] |
| Alter | ca. 1,5 Mia. Jahre [3] |
| Metallizität [Fe/H] | −0,9 [3] |
| Geschichte | |
| Entdeckt von | James Dunlop |
| Entdeckungszeit | 1826 |
| Katalogbezeichnungen | |
| NGC 411 • Dun 57 • ESO 51-SC19 • GC 224 • h 2384 • Kron 60 • Lindsay 82 | |
NGC 411 ist ein offener Sternhaufen in der Kleinen Magellanschen Wolke im Sternbild Tukan am Südsternhimmel. Der Haufen ist etwas mehr als eine Milliarde Jahre alt.
Das Objekt wurde im Jahr 1826 vom schottischen Astronomen James Dunlop entdeckt.[4]
Weblinks
- WEBDA Seite für NGC 411
- astronews.com: Bild des Tages 22. Januar 2013
- Appearances can be deceptive (engl.)
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Autor/Urheber: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Lizenz: CC BY 3.0
Appearances can be deceptive
Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. Hubble is one of the best telescopes for studying these, as its extremely high resolution lets astronomers see individual stars, even in the crowded core. The clusters all look very similar, and in Hubble’s images it can be quite hard to tell them apart – and they all look much like NGC 411, pictured here.
And yet appearances can be deceptive: NGC 411 is in fact not a globular cluster, and its stars are not old. It isn’t even in the Milky Way.
NGC 411 is classified as an open cluster. Less tightly bound than a globular cluster, the stars in open clusters tend to drift apart over time as they age, whereas globulars have survived for well over 10 billion years of galactic history. NGC 411 is a relative youngster — not much more than a tenth of this age. Far from being a relic of the early years of the Universe, the stars in NGC 411 are in fact a fraction of the age of the Sun.
The stars in NGC 411 are all roughly the same age, having formed in one go from one cloud of gas. But they are not all the same size. Hubble’s image shows a wide range of colours and brightnesses in the cluster’s stars. These tell astronomers many facts about the stars, including their mass, temperature and evolutionary phase. Blue stars, for instance, have higher surface temperatures than red ones.
The image is a composite produced from ultraviolet, visible and infrared observations made by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. This filter set lets the telescope “see” colours slightly further beyond red and the violet ends of the spectrum.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
About the Object
Name: NGC 411 Type: • Local Universe : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Open Distance: 200000 light years
Colours & filters Band Wavelength Telescope
Ultraviolet U 336 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Optical B 475 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Infrared I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope WFC3.