Friday, November 15, 2013

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:22 AM PST

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. This glittering cluster contains over 100 000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its center.

Hubble reveals first scrapbook pictures of Milky Way's formative years

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:36 AM PST

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the first visual evidence showing how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, assembled itself into the majestic pinwheel of stars we see today. Perusing Hubble's deep-sky surveys, astronomers traced 400 galaxies similar to our Milky Way at various stages of construction over a time span of 11 billion years.

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