Restless stars: High precision study reveals surprising unrest in massive star clusters
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 16:52
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the University of Cologne have completed a high precision study of one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. To this end, the scientific researchers compared two observations that were made ten years apart.