NASA image: Stellar sparklers that last
Friday, July 3, 2015 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time. NGC 1333 is a star cluster populated with many young stars that are less than 2 million years old—a blink of an eye in astronomical terms for stars like these expected to burn for billions of years.