JWST Turns its Gaze on the Farthest Known Star: Earendel - by spacewriter
JWST’s NIRCam view of Earendel, its host galaxy , and the gravitational lensing galaxy cluster WHL0137-08 . Image features include both young star-forming regions and older established star clusters. In the left image, we see hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Some galaxies, mostly the redder ones, are distorted, appearing to be stretched out or mirror-imaged. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe , Z.
The galaxy also contains star clusters well along in their evolution. One of those clusters is around 10 million years old. It may still exist in the modern Universe. The cluster gives astronomers some interesting clues about the globular clusters that swarm our own Milky Way today. Some of them could have formed around the same time as the distant clusters in WHL0137-08.
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