Aug 14, 2024, 06:58 AM IST

5 stunning images of star cluster captured by NASA

Apurwa Amit

Star clusters are large groups of stars held together by self-gravitation Here are some stunning images of star cluster

This image was captured by Hubble Space Telescope that image shows the star cluster NGC 1850, located about 160,000 light-years away.

This image shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651 that is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies.

This stellar image of star cluster Liller 1, located 30,000 light-years from Earth, formed stars over 11 billion years.

It is "Open clusters" that contain between a few dozen and a few thousand stars, all formed from the same initial cloud of gas and dust.

This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion of the open cluster Caldwell 71.

Credit: NASA