Interstellar Dust and Stellar Clusters

What am I looking at?

An interactive three-dimensional view of the dust distribution and stellar clusters in the solar neighborhood.

Research purpose

This visualization supports a master's thesis investigating how the interstellar environments around stellar clusters change with cluster age.

How to read the figure

Dust shading changes from gray to yellow, with increasing opacity at higher density. Cyan markers represent clusters aged 0–10 Myr; red markers represent clusters aged 10–100 Myr. Marker sizes scale with Jacobi mass, not physical cluster size.

Researcher: Benjamin Bairrington, M.Sc. Physics

Advisor: Professor Shmuel Bialy (Research Website)

Institution: Department of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology