Sunny Priyan
NASA’s Hubble captures ESO 591-12, a glittering, multicolored globular cluster tightly packed with stars.
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ESO 591-12, a globular cluster formed early in galaxy history, glitters with red and blue stars; cooler and hotter, formed from the same collapsing gas cloud.
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Hubble captured the data used to create this image of ESO 591-12 as part of a study intended to resolve individual stars of the entire globular cluster system of the Milky Way.
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Hubble revolutionized the study of globular clusters since earthbound telescopes are unable to distinguish individual stars in the compact clusters.
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The study is part of the Hubble Missing Globular Clusters Survey, which targets 34 confirmed Milky Way globular clusters that Hubble has yet to observe.
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The program observes Milky Way globular clusters' ages and distances, revealing key details about our galaxy’s early stages and unexplored clusters in the bulge or halo.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Massari