Image Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 2
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen
Image Credit: NASA, ESA and N. Bastian (Donostia International Physics Center); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
Situated in the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is where billions of stars are born. The cluster is located in the constellation Dorado, some 160,000 light-years away.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA and P. Goudfrooij (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
The light from millions of young, newly formed stars shines in this galaxy, which is known as NGC 1569. For the past 100 million years, NGC 1569 has been nearly continually releasing stars at a rate 100 times faster than that of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA)
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: J. Higdon (Cornell U.) and I. Jordan (STScI)
Image Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center)