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Related: About this forumDizzying Array of Stars Dazzles in New Hubble Photo
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 23, 2018 07:06am ET
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Wow. That's a lot of stars.
The uncountable multitudes of the globular cluster NGC 1898 shine in a newly released photo by the famous Hubble Space Telescope, a joint mission of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Over the years, Hubble has made many observations of NGC 1898, a structure that was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1834. NGC 1898 lies near the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way that's about 160,000 light-years from Earth. [The Hubble Space Telescope: A 25th Anniversary Photo Celebration]
"Today, we know that globular clusters are some of the oldest known objects in the universe and that they are relics of the first epochs of galaxy formation," ESA officials wrote today (Oct. 22) in a description of the image.
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Dizzying Array of Stars Dazzles in New Hubble Photo (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Oct 2018
OP
We can learn about the nature and evolution of our universe from looking at other parts of it
FiveGoodMen
Oct 2018
#4
That looks like a Beto Rally,.. where all the audience members fired up their Bic lighters.
magicarpet
Oct 2018
#6
lark
(23,091 posts)1. Wow, that is awesome!
Thanks for sharing.
Fullduplexxx
(7,857 posts)2. Is there any practical reason to look at stuff 160000 lys away?
I saw an article about an object 2 billion lys away .
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)4. We can learn about the nature and evolution of our universe from looking at other parts of it
Obviously, we're not going to anything that far away.
shraby
(21,946 posts)3. whodathunk!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)5. Beautiful!
I love Hubble.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)6. That looks like a Beto Rally,.. where all the audience members fired up their Bic lighters.
sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)7. Truly makes me feel insignificant.
byronius
(7,394 posts)8. 'My god, it's full of stars.'
I need to have been born a few hundred or thousand years from now. Can someone help me with that?