esahubble_opo9532c August 28th, 1995
Credit: Harvey Richer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) and NASA/ESA
A Hubble Space Telescope colour image of a small portion of the cluster only 0.63 light-years across reveals eight white dwarf stars among the cluster's much brighter population of yellow sun-like stars and cooler red dwarf stars. Hubble reveals a total of 75 white dwarfs in one small area within M4, out of the total of about 40, 000 white dwarfs that the cluster is predicted to contain.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9532c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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