Located in the bulge of our Milky Way galaxy, Terzan 5 resembles a globular cluster 🪩 a dense ball of ancient stars. However, observations from @Hubble_Space and Webb have revealed that it contains four distinct populations of stars.This makes it the prototype of a new class of object: a ‘bulge fossil fragment’. These are remnants from our galaxy’s early formation. 2/3
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Located in the bulge of our Milky Way galaxy, Terzan 5 resembles a globular cluster 🪩 a dense ball of ancient stars. However, observations from @Hubble_Space and Webb have revealed that it contains four distinct populations of stars.This makes it the prototype of a new class of object: a ‘bulge fossil fragment’. These are remnants from our galaxy’s early formation. 2/3
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Zooming into Andromeda 🤩This video is just a small part of the 7,398 individual images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015.The mosaic created from these frames spans 61,000 light-years of the Andromeda galaxy. Astronomers identified over 100 million stars within it ✨
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Zooming into Andromeda 🤩This video is just a small part of the 7,398 individual images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015.The mosaic created from these frames spans 61,000 light-years of the Andromeda galaxy. Astronomers identified over 100 million stars within it ✨
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Close-up: The Cigar Galaxy—Millions of Stars | Hubble & Webb Space Telescopes
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Close-up: The Cigar Galaxy—Millions of Stars | Hubble & Webb Space Telescopes
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