Messier 72 is a ball of stars (globular cluster) located in the constellation Aquarius,(The Water Bearer) and lies at a distance of 54,570 light-years from Earth. The cluster contains over 100,000 stars and is thought to be 9.5 billion years old. Charles Messier,the 18th century French astronomer,catalogued over 100 galaxies and clusters. Through the telescopes available at the time,comets,nebulae,globular clusters and galaxies appeared just as faint,diffuse blobs. This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera for Surveys combining exposures taken with yellow and near-infrared filters. | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Hubble & NASA / ESA |
Taille de l’image : | 4180 px × 4180 px |
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