Space / 2017-12-08
Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
NASA's image library records Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
Image release August 16, 2012 Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus Nebula is 170,000 light-years from Earth. What at first was thought to be only one cluster in the core of the massive star-forming region 30 Doradus has bee