Science can be delivered with images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
A new image from the observatory was published on December 1st. The Hubble Space Telescope can see bright blue-white stars against dusty swaths of red during the holiday season.
The stars are located outside the Milky Way in a patch of sky near a nearby galaxy. It appears to be a smudge in the sky. This is a small satellite of the Milky Way. Roughly 150,000 light years away from Earth is where it is. Hubble is able to make out great details.
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The stars Hubble can see can be seen there. They are part of a region called BSDL 2777. A group of stars are held together by their gravity. Astronomers are interested in studying star clusters because they hold information about how stars come to be. Hundreds of stars within one cluster are likely to share the same origin. They evolved from the same cloud of stars.
According to Hubble Space Telescope officials, the blue, green and orange colors are optical light. There are a lot of stars against a rusty canvas.
The red regions are not bright. They represent the information that Hubble collected. Human eyes can see what these are. They show sources of heat. The red is a representation of the open cluster.
Astronomers are looking into stellar evolution.
The researchers studied growing, early-stage stars that are still accumulating mass from the clouds that surround them.
Ultra violet light is released as gas and dust spirals towards a young star. Astronomers can understand the dust's properties by analyzing how light interacts with it.
Hubble's successor is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb). The observatory launched Christmas Day last year, and its team released its first official science data this past summer. JWST is specially designed to study the universe's infrared wavelengths, and can offer scientists more data on the material that appears here as the red backdrop.
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