Sunny Priyan
Hubble Space Telescope captures the dazzling globular cluster NGC 6569, revealing a glittering hoard of stars in the heart of Sagittarius.
Globular clusters are tightly bound groups of tens of thousands to millions of stars, found in all types of galaxies.
The intense gravity of closely packed stars gives globular clusters their spherical shape and densely populated centers.
This observation comes from an investigation of globular clusters which lie close to the center of the Milky Way.
Astronomers combined Hubble's data with archival observations to measure the ages of globular clusters, including NGC 6569.
NGC 6569 serves as an astronomical "treasure trove," revealing essential data about star formation and galaxy evolution.