A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cluster of stars.
There are tens of thousands to millions of stars in this stellar grouping. The European Space Agency said in a statement that the new image was created using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The bright stars in the picture are adorned with cross-shaped patterns of light known as diffraction spikes. The structure of Hubble is believed to be the cause of these astronomy adornments. The path taken by the starlight as it enters the telescope causes bright objects to be surrounded by spikes of light.
There are the best Hubble Space Telescope images.
Different fields of view determine how much of the sky each instrument can see. The new image was taken when the instruments were looking at the southern constellation Sagittarius.
Hubble's position above the surface, where the atmosphere is thin enough to not obscure the telescope's view of the stars, has proven to be beneficial in the study of clusters.
The observations that led to the new image are part of a larger effort to help astronomy.
The gas and dust shrouding the center of our galaxy blocks some of the light from the clusters as well as subtly changing the colors of their stars. Figuring out how our galaxy has evolved can be done by studyinglobular clusters.
Hubble, which is more than 30 years old, continues to make new discoveries and is working alongside the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope to study the universe in even greater detail.
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