The Hubble Space Telescope is here for you if this week's release of the biggest James Webb image isn't enough to satisfy your desire for beautiful pictures of space. Hubble researchers share an image collected by the 30-year-old telescope each week, and this week's image shows a dazzling cluster by the name of NCG 6540
A group of tens of thousands of stars are held in a cluster by their shared gravity. The Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys were used to take the picture.
The constellation of Sagittarius is where this cluster is located. It was first observed in 1784 by William Herschel, who originally classified it as a faint nebula, but its true nature was noted when it was observed in 1986.
This image was collected as part of a study into a group of stars in the Milky Way. Hubble peered into the heart of NGC 6540 to help astronomy measure the ages, shapes, and structures of globular clusters. The gas and dust shrouding the center of our galaxy blocks some of the light from these clusters as well as subtly changing the colors of their stars.
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