Image: Hubble admires a youthful globular star cluster
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 07:31
in Astronomy & Space
Globular clusters offer some of the most spectacular sights in the night sky. These ornate spheres contain hundreds of thousands of stars, and reside in the outskirts of galaxies. The Milky Way contains over 150 such clusters—and the one shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, named NGC 362, is one of the more unusual ones.