Hubble saw the snow globe in deep space

Hubble saw the snow globe in deep space

Especially for the festive period, the Hubble Space Telescope made a dazzling image of a globular star cluster filled with star glitter - similar to a festive Snow Globe.

The visual data captured by the telescope camera called Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which captures both optical and infrared, shows the tightly packed central area of ​​Messier 92, one of the brightest globular clusters in the Milky Way. Even at a distance of more than 25,000 light-years from Earth, observers will be able to notice this cluster in the constellation Hercules without the aid of a telescope. M 92 has an extremely low metal content. This means that the cluster has a deficiency of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. Observing the metallicity of globular clusters helps determine their evolution and provide measurements of their age. As it turned out, Messier 92 is one of the oldest globular clusters in our galaxy. The cluster is as old as the Universe itself.

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