This week, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of globular cluster NGC 6652 — a collection of some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Where is it? 30,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a star-studded globular cluster called NGC 6652 located about 6,500 light-years from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Thought to be 13.6 billion years old, according to a 2020 study in the journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, it’s one of the oldest objects in the Milky Way.
Globular clusters may have evolved a few hundred million years after the Big Bang around supermassive stars that only existed for a couple of million years, according to a study published in May in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.25 breathtaking images of the northern lights
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