NASA¡¯s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured two perspectives of an unusual star cluster, which it shared on its Instagram handle, calling it a ¡®globular cluster¡¯.
Located around 160 light-years away, near the Large Magellanic Cloud, the image consisted of thousands of thousands of glittering stars from the universe. The two images were captured using different filters, which helped in studying the different wavelengths of light being released from these objects.
The image in blue looks at some near-infrared light along with visible light, whereas the image in red nebulosity offers a much broader range from near UV to the beginnings of the IR spectrum. UV observations help in detecting the light from the hottest and youngest stars.
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The spherical collection of densely packed stars is held together by gravitational attraction is relatively young, which is not often the case in globular clusters such as this one.?
Astrophysicists are of the belief that when the first generation of these stars were born, they released matter such as dust and gas into the surrounding cosmos.
However, the density of the new star cluster was so high that the matter wasn¡¯t able to escape the cluster¡¯s gravitational pull, forcing it to stay nearby and form a second generation of stars, further increasing the density of the cluster. Using Hubble, astronomers are able to better understand star formation.
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