Hubble has an audience of stellar flashbulbs
Monday, July 23, 2012 - 07:01
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audiences cameras. Yet the many stars of this object, known as Messier 107, are not a fleeting phenomenon, at least by human reckoning of time these ancient stars have gleamed for many billions of years.