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- The Hubble Space Telescope operated by NASA and the ESA has returned another stunning image of an area of space.
- The globular star cluster known as NGC 1805 is a collection of stars of varying ages and intensities.
- The blue stars burn hotter and put off UV light, while the red stars put off infrared light, and Hubble can capture both thanks to its position high above Earth's atmosphere.
The image above might look like a perfectly-timed capture of a firework exploding in midair, but it's actually a distant collection of stars called NGC 1805. It's what is called a globular cluster of stars, and you can see why. The image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and aside from being a gorgeous piece of stellar eye candy, it's also an awesome example of why space telescopes are so important to our understanding of space.
As the Hubble website explains, the cluster is a densely packed collection of stars that are much closer than any star is to our own Sun. The stars are "100 to 1,000 times closer" to one another than any other star is to our Sun, which is pretty incredible.
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This new Hubble photo is absolutely mind-blowing originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 23:20:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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