Today, the NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured a picture of what the US agency called a beautiful “star cluster” called NGC 1858.
The newly discovered star cluster is located in a region full of 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 regarding 10 million years old.
One of the most prominent characteristics of the Large Magellanic Cloud is that it is one of several satellite galaxies belonging to the Milky Way that includes the planet Earth among its components, which are smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to our galaxy.
Astronomers revealed that it, along with its companion the Small Magellanic Cloud, 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 stellar cluster is a type called an open cluster, which means that it is not as tightly bound by gravity as some other structures and has an irregular shape.
And the US space agency NASA revealed that the Magellanic cloud results in an existing amount of dust and gas, which means that it can be classified as an emission nebula, adding that the light emitted from stars in the region has ionized the gas and caused it to emit its own light.
Scientists working on the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the stars within this young group are in different stages of their development, which makes it a complex group.
