Hubble Space Telescope starstruck by a mysterious globular cluster (photo)

A heavenly workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomy are at it again by releasing a new image of a cluster of stars.

There is more to this section of the heavens than the eye can see. According to a statement from the European Space Agency, the Ruprecht 106 cluster is home to a great mystery and a game that will help uncover it.

Even though the core stars in a globular cluster were all born at the same time and location, there are other stars that have different chemical compositions. The variation is believed to represent later stars formed from gas polluted by larger first- generation stars.

There are the best Hubble Space Telescope images.

There are no second- or third- generation stars in Ruprecht 106, which is a single population cluster. Astronomers hope that they can explain why only one generation of stars is present in this cluster.

Ruprecht 106, also known as C 1235-509, is located in the constellation of Centaurus and was discovered in 1961.

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys used separate exposures to make a dazzling color image of Ruprecht 106.

Over the years, many of the telescope's other instruments have been upgraded.

During a spacewalk in 2009, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 3 replaced the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, and the original Wide Field and Planetary Camera was swapped for the new one.

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