Daily Telescope: A shiny cluster of stars in a nearby galaxy
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Hubble delivers —
Daily Telescope: A shiny cluster of stars in a nearby galaxy
This cluster is about 2 billion years old.
Eric Berger - 4/2/2024, 12:00 PM
Good morning. It's April 2, and today's photo comes from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. It showcases a globular cluster, NGC 1651, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This cluster of stars is about 120 light-years across. Like other such globular clusters, it is generally spherical, as the stars are bound to one another by gravity. Thus, there is a higher concentration of stars near the center of the cluster.
Pretty much every bright light in this image is a star but for a lovely spiral galaxy. Can you find it?
Source: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer
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