Hubble telescope spies a swarm of stars in a cosmic beehive

A new image of deep space shows a cluster of stars filled with stars like a swarm of bees.

The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cluster of stars that is close to Earth.

There are hundreds of thousands to millions of stars separated by an average of one light-year, which makes up a grubby cluster like this.

There are the best Hubble Space Telescope images.

The closest star to the sun is over four light-years away. The average distance between stars in the universe is 5 light years.

The stunning image is another example that Hubble can still deliver the goods despite its more powerful counterpart, the James Webb Space Telescope, stealing some of the spotlight since it started stunning space images back to Earth in July.

William Herschel discovered the Hubble image of the globular cluster in 1786. Four of these programs are not concerned with the bees.

They are interested in understanding the population of rapidly spinning neutron stars, or pulsars, hidden within the cluster.

A thousand trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, and home to at least eight pulsars that spin fast and strong beams of radiation as they spin.

The core of a massive star can no longer support itself against the inward pressure of gravity, which causes a pulsar. A mass around the sun is squeezed into a width no greater than that of a city here on Earth.

The densest material in the universe is what makes neutron stars so dense.

Astronomers found two new millisecond pulsars in the cluster in April of 2022.

A dense composition isn't the only extreme feature of the millisecond pulsars. The name of this type of star is taken from the fact that they have less than 30 milliseconds of rotation time. There are some that have been discovered with rotational periods of over one second. A millisecond pulsar can spin up to 43,000 times a minute.

The scientists think these extreme neutron stars get their incredible rotational speeds when they form in a system. The material from the donor is spun up by the neutron.

The millisecond pulsars are thought to have a rotation time of over five minutes. There is a rotation of 11500 times a minute for NGC 6440G and 21050 times a minute for NGC 6450H.

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