eso_eso1630b September 7th, 2016
Credit: ESO/F. Ferraro
Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of the very early days of the Milky Way. This image is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1630b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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