NGC 6362: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Globular cluster in the constellation Ara}}

| image = [[File:The globular star cluster NGC 6362.jpg|250px]]

| size_v = 9'

| names = {{odlist|name= GCl 66|name2= C 1726-670}}<ref>{{cite simbad|title=NGC 6362|accessdate=2021-02-19}}</ref>

'''NGC 6362''' is a [[globular cluster]] in the [[constellation]] [[Ara (constellation)|Ara]], lying close to [[Apus (constellation)|Apus]] in the southern sky. A [[telescope]] with a 150mm primary mirror is required to resolve the stars within this irregularly shaped cluster.<ref name="nightsky" /> British astronomer [[James Dunlop]] first observed the cluster on 30 June 1826. It is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth and contains a number of [[blue stragglers]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Atkinson|first=Nancy|title=Beautiful Star Cluster Looks Surprisingly Youthful |url=http://www.universetoday.com/98277/beautiful-star-cluster-is-surprisingly-youthful/|publisher=University Today|access-date=29 November 2012|date=2012-10-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dazzling star cluster holds some deceptively young stars|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49625522|work=space on NBCnews.com|publisher=space.com|access-date=29 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ngc6362.html|work=Hubble telescope|publisher=nasa.gov|access-date=29 November 2012}}</ref>

File:NGC 6362 globular cluster HST.jpg|Detailed view of NGC 6362 globular cluster.<ref name=esahubble>{{cite news|title=An unexpected population of young-looking stars|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1244a/|access-date=12 November 2012|newspaper=ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week}}</ref>

<ref name=aj140_6_1830>{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Goldsbury | first1=Ryan | last2=Richer | first2=Harvey B. | last3=Anderson | first3=Jay | last4=Dotter | first4=Aaron | last5=Sarajedini | first5=Ata | last6=Woodley | first6=Kristin | title=The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. X. New Determinations of Centers for 65 Clusters | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=140 | issue=6 | pages=1830–1837 |date=December 2010 | doi=10.1088/0004-6256/140/6/1830 | bibcode=2010AJ....140.1830G | postscript=. |arxiv = 1008.2755 | s2cid=119183070 }}</ref>

<ref name=hcob849_11>{{citation | last1=Shapley | first1=Harlow | last2=Sawyer | first2=Helen B. | title=A Classification of Globular Clusters | journal=Harvard College Observatory Bulletin | volume=849 | issue=849 | pages=11–14 |date=August 1927 | bibcode=1927BHarO.849...11S | postscript=. }}</ref>

<ref name="nightsky">{{cite book | last=Dunlop | first=Storm | title=Atlas of the Night Sky | url=https://archive.org/details/collinsatlasofni0000dunl | url-access=registration | publisher=[[HarperCollins|Collins]] | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-00-717223-8 }}</ref>

<ref name=aj139_2_476>{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Paust | first1=Nathaniel E. Q. | last2=Reid | first2=I. Neill | last3=Piotto | first3=Giampaolo | last4=Aparicio | first4=Antonio | last5=Anderson | first5=Jay | last6=Sarajedini | first6=Ata | last7=Bedin | first7=Luigi R. | last8=Chaboyer | first8=Brian | last9=Dotter | first9=Aaron | last10=Hempel | first10=Maren | last11=Majewski | first11=Steven | last12=Marín-Franch | first12=A. | last13=Milone | first13=Antonino | last14=Rosenberg | first14=Alfred | last15=Siegel | first15=Michael | title=The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. VIII. Effects of Environment on Globular Cluster Global Mass Functions | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume= 139 | issue= 2 | pages= 476–491 |date=February 2010 | doi=10.1088/0004-6256/139/2/476 | bibcode=2010AJ....139..476P | postscript=. | hdl=2152/34371 | s2cid=120965440 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name=mnras404_3_1203>{{citation | last1=Forbes | first1=Duncan A. | last2=Bridges | first2=Terry | title=Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters | journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] | volume=404 | issue=3 | pages=1203–1214 |date=May 2010 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16373.x | bibcode=2010MNRAS.404.1203F | postscript=. |arxiv = 1001.4289 | s2cid=51825384 }}</ref>

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