HST image of an old globular star cluster in galaxy M31
We believe our HST observations of NGC 4038/4039 and other merger galaxies also shed some new light on how young globular clusters form, i.e., from giant clouds of hydrogen gas that astronomers call Giant Molecular Clouds. Full-grown spiral galaxies like the Milky Way have typically 1000-2000 such clouds. An example is the GMC associated with the Eagle Nebula.
Credit:About the Image
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Id: | opo9734t |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 21 October 1997, 19:00 |
Size: | 350 x 350 px |
About the Object
Name: | Andromeda Galaxy, IRAS 00400+4059, M 31, Messier 31, NGC 224 |
Type: | Unspecified : Star : Grouping : Cluster |
Category: | Galaxies Star Clusters |