Keywords: hubble open star cluster astronomy sky This is a small part of a cluster of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. It's the oldest known such association of stars that formed together as much as 8 billion years ago. The fuzzier, elongated patches are much more distant galaxies, each composed of billions of stars, similar to our own Milky Way. Find out more at hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/25/ This is a small part of a cluster of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. It's the oldest known such association of stars that formed together as much as 8 billion years ago. The fuzzier, elongated patches are much more distant galaxies, each composed of billions of stars, similar to our own Milky Way. Find out more at hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/25/ |