Friday, 11 September 2020

Hubble Stows a Pocketful of Stars


Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun. via NASA https://ift.tt/3iqlYJy
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