Hubble Telescope Spies Gorgeous Galactic 'String of Pearls' (Photos, Video)

Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 17:00 in Astronomy & Space

The curly string is about 100,000 light-years long and sports blue "pearls" — actually huge young star clusters — every 3,000 light-years along the way, researchers said. You can zoom in on the beautiful structure, and learn more about it, in this new Hub

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