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This image shows a globular cluster known as NGC 1651. Like the object in another recent Picture of the Week, it is located about 162 000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). A notable feature of this image is that the globular cluster almost fills the entire image, even though globular clusters are only about 10 to 300 light-years in diameter (NGC 1651 has a diameter of roughly 120 light-years). In contrast, there are numerous Hubble Pictures of the Week that feature entire galaxies — which can be tens or hundreds of millions of light-years in diameter — that also more or less fill the whole image.
Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer, N. Bartmann
Music: Stellardrone - Endeavour
About the Video
Id: | potw2413a |
Release date: | 26 March 2024, 15:13 |
Duration: | 30 s |
Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
Category: | Star Clusters |