Messier 30 Star Cluster Zoom In [1080p]

Zooming into Messier 30, which formed 13 billion years ago and was discovered in 1764 by Charles Messier. Located about 28 000 light-years away from Earth, this globular cluster — a swarm of several hundred thousand stars — is about 90 light-years across.

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered two distinct kinds of "rejuvenated" stars in the globular cluster Messier 30. A new study shows that both stellar collisions and a process sometimes called vampirism are behind this cosmic "face lift". The scientists also uncover evidence that both sorts of blue stragglers were produced during a critical dynamical event (known as "core collapse") that occurred in Messier 30 a few billion years ago.

Credit: Akira Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Bill Patterson and ESA/Hubble

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Messier 30
• globular cluster
• stars
• astronomy
• Hubble Space Telescope

[XxthulasixX]

its soooo beautiful in the end.. :)

[djxatlanta]

@XxthulasixX - it is, isn't it? And trippy, too! Looks really sweet on an HD TV in a dark room if you get the chance! %-)

[nasserHH]

Ask Is it possible images in the film in his Saheeh Stars Stars

[XxthulasixX]

@djxatlanta - yuup. hehe, ooh, i dont have the chance nw, but someday :P hehe.