New Hubble image: globular cluster NGC 1846

[pokerfan]

A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere.


http://www.space.com/13713-hubble-globular-cluster-photo.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I feel very very ...small.

[WillParkinson]

2. I just feel...

Humbled.

[MARK52]

3. Everything in perspective.

Don't feel small. To the One who created all this, you're more important than you know.

[pokerfan]

4. Universetoday.com has a longer explanation

However, it’s not the individual stars which make this Hubble image such a curiosity, it’s the revelation of a planetary nebula. This means a huge disparity in the member star’s ages…. one of up to 300 million years. Is it possible that the shell and remains of this dead star is a line-of-sight phenomenon, or is it truly a cluster member?

http://www.universetoday.com/91245/ngc-1846-hubble-reveals-peculiar-life-and-death-of-a-stellar-population

[Mistwell]

5. Cool stuff

Cool stuff, thanks