by neufer » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:21 pm
BDanielMayfield wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:14 pm
Wallybru wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:01 pm
Why does there appear to be two stars?
Because there are (at least) two stars. Most stars are part of multiple systems. And add to that the random chance alignments with background stars and we find that double stars are very common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet_cluster wrote:
<<The Coronet cluster, also known as the R CrA cluster after its best-known member, is a small open cluster located about 170 parsecs away in the southern constellation Corona Australis. Isolated [Long.: 0, Lat.: -18] at the edge of the Gould Belt the Coronet cluster is 3.5 times closer to the Earth than the Orion Nebula Cluster. The cluster center is composed of mostly [0.5-2 million year old] young stars.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould_Belt wrote:
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The Gould Belt is a partial ring of stars in the Milky Way, about 3000 light years across, tilted toward the galactic plane by about 16 to 20 degrees. It contains many O- and B-type stars, and may represent the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs—currently the Sun is about 325 light years from the arm's center. The belt is thought to be from 30 to 50 million years old, and of unknown origin. It is named after Benjamin Gould, who identified it in 1879.
The belt contains bright stars in many constellations including (in order going more or less eastward) Cepheus, Lacerta, Perseus, Orion, Canis Major, Puppis, Vela, Carina, Crux (the Southern Cross), Centaurus, Lupus, and Scorpius (including the Scorpius-Centaurus Association). The Milky Way visible in the sky also passes through most of these constellations, but a bit southeast of Lupus.
Star-forming regions and OB associations that make up this region include the Orion Nebula and the Orion molecular clouds, the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association, Cepheus OB2, Perseus OB2, and the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Clouds. The Serpens Molecular Cloud containing star-forming regions W40 and Serpens south is often included in Gould Belt surveys, but is not formally part of the Gould Belt due to its greater distance.
A theory proposed around 2009 suggests that the Gould Belt formed about 30 million years ago when a blob of dark matter collided with the molecular cloud in our region. There is also evidence for similar Gould belts in other galaxies.>>
[quote=BDanielMayfield post_id=285950 time=1537452854 user_id=139536]
[quote=Wallybru post_id=285949 time=1537448476]
Why does there appear to be two stars?[/quote]
Because there are (at least) two stars. Most stars are part of multiple systems. And add to that the random chance alignments with background stars and we find that double stars are very common.[/quote]
[list]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070921.html[/list]
[quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet_cluster"]
<<The Coronet cluster, also known as the R CrA cluster after its best-known member, is a small open cluster located about 170 parsecs away in the southern constellation Corona Australis. Isolated [Long.: 0, Lat.: -18] at the edge of the Gould Belt the Coronet cluster is 3.5 times closer to the Earth than the Orion Nebula Cluster. The cluster center is composed of mostly [0.5-2 million year old] young stars.>>[/quote]
[quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould_Belt"]
[float=left][img3="Illustration of the Gould Belt across the night sky relative to the distribution of molecular clouds in our galaxy. The Gould Belt is shown in red and the Galactic Plane is shown in blue. (Credit: Nick Wright / Thomas Dame)"]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6URVxrFOXIo/VcxhXfwYDeI/AAAAAAAAArY/XLQ6vsAtJxc/s1600/Gould%2Bbelt%2Bgraphic.jpg[/img3][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqS0gJUq3qg[/youtube][/float]
[url=http://aclusterofthoughts.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-is-there-giant-ring-of-young-stars.html]The Gould Belt[/url] is a partial ring of stars in the Milky Way, about 3000 light years across, tilted toward the galactic plane by about 16 to 20 degrees. It contains many O- and B-type stars, and may represent the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs—currently the Sun is about 325 light years from the arm's center. The belt is thought to be from 30 to 50 million years old, and of unknown origin. It is named after Benjamin Gould, who identified it in 1879.
The belt contains bright stars in many constellations including (in order going more or less eastward) Cepheus, Lacerta, Perseus, Orion, Canis Major, Puppis, Vela, Carina, Crux (the Southern Cross), Centaurus, Lupus, and Scorpius (including the Scorpius-Centaurus Association). The Milky Way visible in the sky also passes through most of these constellations, but a bit southeast of Lupus.
Star-forming regions and OB associations that make up this region include the Orion Nebula and the Orion molecular clouds, the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association, Cepheus OB2, Perseus OB2, and the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Clouds. The Serpens Molecular Cloud containing star-forming regions W40 and Serpens south is often included in Gould Belt surveys, but is not formally part of the Gould Belt due to its greater distance.
[b][color=#0000FF]A theory proposed around 2009 suggests that the Gould Belt formed about 30 million years ago when a blob of dark matter collided with the molecular cloud in our region. There is also evidence for similar Gould belts in other galaxies.[/color][/b]>>[/quote]