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Ibinahagi ng National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ang larawan ng densely-packed globular cluster ng mga bituin na matatagpuan umano 157,000 light-years ang layo mula sa Earth.
Sa isang Instagram post, ibinahagi ng NASA na nakuhanan ng kanilang Hubble Space Telescope ang naturang “densely-packed globular cluster” na nasa Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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“Globular clusters are very stable, tightly bound clusters of thousands or even millions of stars,” paliwanag ng NASA.
“Their stability means that they can last a long time, and therefore globular clusters are often studied to investigate potentially very old stellar populations,” dagdag pa nito.
Base umano sa pananaliksik noong 2017, ang naturang globular cluster ay may edad na umaabot sa humigit-kumulang 11.6 bilyon.
“Even though this is only a couple billion years younger than the universe itself – this globular is the youngest cluster in their sample. All of the LMC globular clusters studied in the same work were found to be older, with four of them over 13 billion years old,” anang NASA.
“This globular cluster is as interesting as it is beautiful with its highly concentrated population of stars.”
“The night sky would look very different from the perspective of an inhabitant of a planet orbiting one of the stars in a globular cluster’s center: the sky would appear to be stuffed full of stars, in a stellar environment that is thousands of times more crowded than our own,” saad pa nito.
