Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globular cluster, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colors. Tightly bound by gravity, globular clusters are composed of old stars, which, at around 10 billion years old, are much older than the sun. These clusters are fairly common, with more than 150 currently known in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and more which have been spotted in other galaxies. Globular clusters are among the oldest structures in the Universe that are accessible to direct observational investigation, making them living fossils from the early years of the cosmos. Astronomers infer important properties of globular clusters by looking at the light from their constituent stars.
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Technology: Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble peered deep into the center of globular cluster NGC 6362, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colors.
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Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars
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