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20 May 2022 08:01 a.m.

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Globular Star Clusters help astronomers trace the origin and evolution of galaxies or neighboring galaxies or satellites of the Milky Way.

which the Hubble Space Telescope

That is an important tool of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

or NASA

And the European Space Agency has collected survey data on the distribution of brightness.

and the metal content of more than 35,000 globular clusters.

recently

Astronomers have released new images of the gigantic galaxy UGC 10143, located at the center of the galaxy cluster Abell 2147, about 486 million light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Serpens. Galaxy UGC 10143 is the largest and brightest member of the galaxy cluster Abell 2147 and appears to be part of the Hercules Supercluster, much larger than the galaxy cluster.

This image is based on data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys-ACS, Wide Field Camera 3-WFC3) and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2) mounted. on Hubble

This includes working with the Pan-STARRS space telescope, where the blue and blue colors represent visible light.

while orange-red represents short-wave infrared radiation.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Harris (McMaster University);

Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)

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