How To Steal A Million Stars?

Sonia · #1 15-02-2006, 07:28 AM

Based on observations with European Southern Observatory's Very Large
Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports that the stellar cluster
Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million
low-mass stars.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/11stars/

From Space flight now

ving (David) · #2 15-02-2006, 10:53 AM

globular clusters are so interesting

thanks for the article sonia

anna · #3 15-02-2006, 12:45 PM

Just getting off the track a little Sonia, I am actually
an adoptive mother of M12, it was given to me as a
birthday present.

ving (David) · #4 15-02-2006, 12:52 PM

how on earth did you manage that anna?

anna · #5 15-02-2006, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ving

how on earth did you manage that anna?

After the bushfires in Canberra a couple of years ago, Mt. Stromlo was
raising funds to help with their re-building. One way was to adopt out
(for a fee of course) stars, galaxies and globular clusters. I had a birthday
coming up, so John asked me what I would like to adopt, and then he
organized an Adoption Certificate and it came in the mail as a birthday
present from our grandchildren.

ving (David) · #6 15-02-2006, 01:31 PM

cute

mickoking · #7 15-02-2006, 10:13 PM

M12's loss is our gain

janoskiss (Steve H) · #8 15-02-2006, 11:15 PM

Sonia, I take it you've seen the movie "How to steal a million"... have u? has anyone else? I have and thought it was delightful....

syzygy · #9 15-02-2006, 11:44 PM

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole? If that's the one then yes, quite some time ago now. Yes it was delightful.