• The MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS) compiled and characterized a sample of very X-ray luminous (and thus, by inference, massive), distant clusters of galaxies...
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    The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It...
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    SMACS 0723 (category Galaxy cluster stubs)
    observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of the Southern MAssive Cluster Survey (SMACS), as well as Planck and Chandra. Left: image taken by HST...
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    model the distribution of dark matter in the cluster. Clusters of galaxies are the most recent and most massive objects to have arisen in the hierarchical...
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    Galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0615-5746. Galaxy cluster RXC J0232.2-4420. Galaxy cluster RXC J0032.1+1808 as part of the RELICS program. Massive galaxy cluster PSZ2...
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  • Magellanic Clouds Magnetic-activated cell sorting MAssive Cluster Survey, a survey of distant galaxy clusters that are very bright in X-ray Mac's Convenience...
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    MACS J0025.4-1222 (category Galaxy clusters)
    cluster created by the collision of two galaxy clusters, and is part of the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). Like the earlier discovered Bullet Cluster...
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    MACS J0717.5+3745 (category Galaxy clusters)
    galaxy cluster located 5.4 billion light years away in the constellation Auriga, appearing in the Massive Cluster Survey (MACS). The cluster was formed...
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  • Climate Sounder instrument, on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft MAssive Cluster Survey abbreviated as either MACS or MCS Matrix cable system, submarine...
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  • Near-infrared Spectroscopic Survey of Newly Discovered Massive Stars in the Periphery of Galactic Massive Star Clusters I-NGC 3603". The Astrophysical...
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    largest and most massive type of star cluster, tending to be older, denser, and composed of lower abundances of heavy elements than open clusters, which are...
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    phase of the cluster's most massive stars, which originally belonged to spectral type B. Brown dwarfs, however, are rare in this cluster, probably because...
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    the more massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their members, and can survive for longer. Open clusters have been...
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    MACS J0416.1-2403 (category Galaxy cluster stubs)
    images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope during the Massive Cluster Survey, MACS. This cluster causes gravitational lensing of distant galaxies producing...
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    Supercluster (redirect from Super cluster)
    Abell catalogue of galaxy clusters. He called them "second-order clusters", or clusters of clusters. Superclusters form massive structures of galaxies,...
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    requires there to be a mass. The more massive an object, the more lensing is observed. An example is a cluster of galaxies lying between a more distant...
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    2016). "Unveiling Gargantua: A new search strategy for the most massive central cluster black holes". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 585. A153. arXiv:1509.04782...
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    MACS J0647.7+7015 (category Galaxy cluster stubs)
    sample of 12 extreme galaxy clusters at z > 0.5 discovered by the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). During 2012 the galaxy cluster was announced as gravitationally...
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    et al. (September 2014), "The Gaia-ESO Survey: Stellar content and elemental abundances in the massive cluster NGC 6705", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 569:...
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    The Quintuplet cluster is a dense cluster of massive young stars about 100 light years from the Galactic Center (GC). Its name comes from the fact it...
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    Star (redirect from Massive star)
    October 2020). "The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS – II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136". Monthly Notices...
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    was suggested that IC 1101 was at the center of a massive cooling flow within the Abell 2029 cluster, but later observations dismissed this. A 2017 paper...
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    obtained by a deep infrared survey. The cluster is also known as RSGC2, one of several massive open clusters in Scutum, each containing multiple red supergiants...
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  • MACS 1423-z7p64 is a galaxy listed in the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS), and announced on 10 April 2017 in the journal Nature Astronomy, as being the most...
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  • Maclear (double stars) MACS — Massive Cluster Survey or Magellanic Catalogue of Stars MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (Massive Compact Halo Object) MACHO-LMC...
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    stars in the universe. The formal name MACS J1149 is a reference to MAssive Cluster Survey and the star's coordinates in the J2000 astronomical epoch. While...
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    groups and galaxy clusters. Defining the limits of galaxy clusters is imprecise as many clusters are still forming. In particular, clusters close to the Milky...
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    while less massive stars continue fusing hydrogen on the main sequence. Extensive surveys have revealed a total of 8 white dwarfs in the cluster core, corresponding...
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    RSGC1 (category Open clusters)
    Supergiant Cluster 1) is a young massive open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2006 in the data generated by several infrared surveys, named...
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    Star clusters are large groups of stars held together by self-gravitation. Two main types of star clusters can be distinguished. Globular clusters are...
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