Today, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of what the US agency called a beautiful “star cluster” called NGC 1858.
The newly discovered star cluster is located in a region rich in star-forming regions, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the galaxies belonging to the Milky Way, located 160,000 light-years away and believed to be around 10 million years old.
One of the most important features of the Large Magellanic Cloud is that it is one of several satellite galaxies belonging to the Milky Way that includes planet Earth among its components, which are smaller galaxies gravitationally linked to our galaxy.
Astronomers have revealed that, together with its companion, the Small Magellanic Cloud, it orbits the Milky Way and will eventually collide with our galaxy within billions of years.
And the website Digitartlends, which specializes in space and technology news, reported that the particular star cluster is a type called an open cluster, meaning it’s not as tightly bound to gravity as some other structures and has an irregular shape.
And NASA has revealed that the Magellanic Cloud produces an existing amount of dust and gas, meaning it can be classified as an emission nebula, adding that light emitted by stars in the region ionized the gas and caused it to emit your own light.
Scientists working on the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that the stars within this young group are in different stages of their development, making it a complex group.
