On a regular basis, the Hubble Space Telescope releases spectacular images, from incredible spiral galaxies and galactic oddballs to gorgeous pictures of the planets in our solar system and images that may give you a feeling of déjà vu.
This new star-studded image shows Terzan 9, a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, towards the center of the Milky Way. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. Other stunning Hubble images featuring globular clusters include Ruprecht 106, NGC 6717, NGC 6496, NGC 362, Liller 1, NGC 6535, NGC 1755, Terzan 1, Messier 5, Messier 15, and IC 4499.
Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound groupings of tens of thousands to millions of stars. As this image demonstrates, the hearts of globular clusters can be densely packed with stars; the night sky in this image is strewn with so many stars that it resembles a sea of sequins or a vast treasure chest crammed with gold.
This starry snapshot is from a Hubble program investigating globular clusters located towards the heart of the Milky Way. The central region of our home galaxy contains a tightly packed group of stars known as the Galactic bulge, which is also rich in interstellar dust. This dust has made globular clusters near the Galactic center difficult to study, as it absorbs starlight and can even change the apparent colors of the stars in these clusters. Hubble’s sensitivity at both visible and infrared wavelengths has allowed astronomers to measure how the colors of these globular clusters have been changed by interstellar dust, and thereby establish their ages.
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17 Comments
Where am in these spectacular clusters!?
Comments like this make me realize what a stupid and insignificant form of so-called life we are and the sooner we are extinguished the better for the sake of the universe.
What’s with the self-loathing, Bob? Humanity is here because that’s what God intended -we’re part of the larger creation of the universe.
No worries Bob, you’ll extinguish soon enough.
Wow! I hope this is the new space force camouflage.
Bob needs to get laid
Haven’t seen one ounce of proof that God exists, but the science and magnificence of the vast universe is clear even though many God fearing Christians believe the earth is flat and only 6,000 years old.
For someone who apparently created the universe, God is surprisingly ignorant about it.
Bob needs Jesus -and fast!
All have sinned & fall short of God’s glory (Alpha & Omega: Creator of life itself).
Were it not for Jesus, we would all be going to hell (yes, hell is real… and so is Satan);
See Ephesians 6:12
John 3:16 is A L L T R U E .
Better hurry. 🕚 is almost ⬆️
🌎🙏🕚
There are books which say hell is not real. If you believe something simlly because it is written in a book, then you have a problem: hell both exists and does not exist.
Bob TF
People never cease to amaze me…
All good bob respect wat u said and ellise not everything’s about God as as someone who loves God and science stfu
I gotta poop
The time and place to get a hold on the other hand and to make sure that you are doing the right things.
Lol,the most perfect emblem for a square guy. Lol
Elise needs psychiatric help in a big way. With all the religions out there and the bible originating in Iraq how can someone think Jesus is the answer to everything. What about all the life forms before only the good stories about Christians were taught? Ever think if a carpenter died on a cross with others and then put in a cave blocked by a rock until others returned and found the rock moved and the carpenter missing. As corrupt as the Christians were I question if they didn’t return and remove the dead just to screw with everyone’s heads. How many versions of the bible have been written at this point? No one will know which cult/religion is correct until the day they die unless we all really do turn into worm food. Life, including the dinosaurs is a miracle and no one knows what lies ahead. The church provides hope for the hopeless and prevents civil unrest because we’d all act just like the original Christians and wipe out most of humanity. Remove your blinders and open your mind.