[▲ Disperse the star group “NGC 2164” (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone)]
This is in the direction of “Dorado” in the southern skyDisperse the star group “NGC 2164”is. What is an open cluster?Dozens to hundredsA celestial body in which the stars of the world are sparsely and loosely gathered.By the way, in the star clusterGlobular clusterThere are also things like that, but this is much more numerous than open clustersHundreds of thousandsThere are so many stars.
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The beautiful appearance of open clusters and globular clustersJewelry boxIt may be compared to.NGC 2164 in the imageContrast between the shining stars and the black universe in the backgroundIs wonderful, and the part where the stars can be seen side by side isNecklaces and bracelets with a series of jewelsIt is also like.
Open clusters are distributed in the galactic disk in the Milky Way galaxy, but NGC 2164 is not the Milky Way galaxy, but another galaxy about 160,000 light-years away.“Large Magellanic Cloud”It is a star cluster that exists in.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy that weighs only about one-hundredth of the Milky Way galaxy, but it is stillBillions of starsIt is made of.According to the European Space Agency (ESA), in the Large Magellanic CloudAbout 60 globular clustersWhenAbout 700 open clustersHas been found.
The image at the beginning is“Hubble” Space TelescopeCreated based on infrared, visible, and ultraviolet observation data from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), this week’s Hubble Space Telescope “Cluster in the Cloud” ) Published by ESA on August 23, 2021.
Related: Glittering jewelry box in space.Open cluster of small Magellanic Clouds photographed by Hubble
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone
Source: ESA / Hubble
Sentence / Takehiro Matsumura
