“If you look at the very young stars in the cluster and the spacing between them, it isn't random spacing. They're all about the same distance apart.”
Erick T. Young
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
Galileo Galilei
“The question we want to answer is: why are these massive stars sitting in the center of the cluster?”
Tom Megeath
“The super star clusters hidden within these super nebulae are probably a lot like globular clusters in our own Milky Way, only younger, and they can contain up to a million young stars. The mystery is why our own Milky Way no longer forms globular star clusters and hasn't for 10 billion years. These galaxies still can. We want to know why. This is star formation on steroids.”
Jean Turner
“We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.”
Lori Allen
“We believe this process of forming stars in a cluster was exactly the same thing that happened with our very own sun 4 1/2 billion years ago. It tells us a lot about the history of our own solar system.”
“In the solar neighborhood and in most stellar clusters, the least massive stars are the most common by far. Our observations with [the Very Large Telescope in Chile] show this is not the case for Messier 12.”
Guido de Marchi
