Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Hubble's Celestial Snow Globe


A Hubble Space Telescope View of Globular Cluster M79

It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles a swirling snowstorm in a snow globe. The stars are residents of the globular star cluster Messier 79, or M79, located 41,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Lepus. The cluster is also known as NGC 1904.


via Hubble - News feed
http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-37

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