Globular Cluster NGC 1783 (IMAGE)
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A portrait of the massive globular cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This dense swarm of stars is located about 160,000 light years from Earth and has the mass of about 170,000 Suns. A new study by astronomers from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwestern University, and the Adler Planetarium suggests the globular cluster swept up stray gas and dust from outside the cluster to give birth to three different generations of stars.
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ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.com)
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