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The Hubble Space Telescope has managed to capture the appearance of a globular cluster located in the Milky Way’s satellite galaxy, namely the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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JAKARTA – The Hubble Space Telescope has managed to capture the appearance of a globular cluster located in the Milky Way’s satellite galaxy, namely the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This globular cluster looks unique because it looks like a giant snowball.
The discovery of this globular cluster is also even more interesting because it coincides with the Christmas celebration, which is usually equated with the moment of snowfall or snowfall white Christmas. This globular cluster is called NGC 2210 and is located about 158,000 light-years from Earth.
A globular cluster is a collection of stars that have a spherical shape. Globular clusters can reportedly consist of tens of thousands to millions of stars ESA Hubble. Stars in globular clusters are generally old stars with a redder color than stars in open or open star clusters open cluster.
NGC 2210 is the first globular cluster to have its entire appearance captured by the Hubble Space Telescope since that telescope was launched in 1990. According to astronaut predictions, NGC 2210 is about 11.6 billion years old.
This makes NGC 2210 almost as old as other globular clusters in the LMC. NGC 2210 is also the same age as the oldest globular cluster in the Milky Way’s halo.
NGC 2210 is one of the youngest globular clusters in the LMC ever discovered by astronomers. Still, NGC 2210 is only about 2.2 billion years older than the universe.
In fact, NGC 2210 was first discovered in 2017. However, astronomers have only been able to create images or representations of NGC 2210 using various data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
In addition to NGC 2210, astronomers also discovered a number of other star clusters during their observations. Quite a few of these globular clusters are older than NGC 2210.
The four globular clusters discovered by astronomers, for example, are expected to be more than 13 billion years old. This means that these different globular clusters only formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers show that globular clusters can live for very long periods of time because, as reported, they have very strong gravitational bonds Space on Tuesday (12/26/23). These strong gravitational bonds make globular clusters very stable.
The fact that NGC 2210 and other globular clusters in the LMC have a similar age to globular clusters in the Milky Way is also quite intriguing for astronomers. This fact indicates that the globular clusters in the LMC and the Milky Way formed at the same time, although the Milky Way and the LMC galaxy formed separately.
Source: Republica
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