NASA's Hubble snaps pictures of stars orbiting closely to one another like swarm of bees

On September 14, National Aeronautics and Administration (NASA), posted a tweet on its official Twitter handle, featuring a cluster of tightly packed stars from a distant galaxy. In stunning picture, Twitter users can see 100s to 1000s of stars packed closely toger and shimmering.

Most of brightest stars in this picture appear to be emitting blue and orange colours, while backdrop of appears to be dark brown in colour. This breathtaking picture was snapped by ne or than NASA and European ncy’s (ESA) Hubble telescope and was posted on NASA’s official website nasa.gov on September 11. 

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Where are se tightly packed stars located in ?

According to a report on ncy’s website by NASA editor Rob Garner, this tightly packed group of stars are located near edge of Large Mllanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy of Milky Way. It is located at distance 158,200 light-years from Earth. cluster of blue and orange stars featured in breathtaking Hubble im is from  globular cluster NGC 1805.

This young globular cluster is more clearly visible from  Dorado constellation, which is a constellation in sourn sky. Dorado was named in late 16th century. Today it is one of 88 modern constellations. Dorado in Portuguese means a swordfish.

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One of more peculiar features of globular clusters is that y contain stars that are born around same time. But NGC 1805, is very bizarre and does t seem to adhere to rule like or global clusters. NASA report states that this particular cluster might be host to two different populations of stars, hence ir s might be millions of years apart.  reason that astromers marvel at opportunity to study this kind of clusters is that it helps m to understand how stars evolve and how y . This will also reveal factors that determine wher a star will end its life as a white dwarf or explode like a superva.

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How was Hubble able to snap picture?

stars featuring in picture orbit closely to one ar, just like bees swarming around a hive. centre of cluster is extremely dense and stars in this area are 100 to 1,000 times closer to each or than nearest stars are to our Sun. Hence, it can be only be imagined as this point, how different ir planetary systems would be to ours.

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What catches attention of a viewer in this im is striking difference in colours of se stars. Some stars appear to be blue while shining brightest in near-ultraviolet light, ors are red and are illuminated in near-infrared. telescopes such as Hubble are able to t only spot but also observe se stars in ultraviolet because y are stationed above Earth’s atmosphere. Earth’s atmosphere tends to absorb most ultraviolet light, making se celestial views inaccessible to ground-based facilities of NASA.