Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the stars in open cluster KMHK 1231 are loosely bound by gravity and surrounded by crimson gas and dust of the nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
They added: “The smaller galaxy to the left, IC 2163, has ‘slithered’ behind the larger one at right, NGC 2207, millions of years ago. Though we can’t wait around for millions of years to see what may ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Globular clusters, which are much larger and denser than open clusters, containing several thousand to millions of stars all formed from a shared ...