Posted on 01/30/2023 1:19:14 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are less than 200 left. Over the eons, many globular clusters were destroyed by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil, older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe itself in raw age. There are few, if any, young globular clusters left in our Milky Way Galaxy because conditions are not ripe for more to form. The featured image shows a Hubble Space Telescope view of 13-billion year old NGC 6355, a surviving globular cluster currently passing near the Milky Way's center. Globular cluster stars are concentrated toward the image center and highlighted by bright blue stars. Most other stars in the frame are dimmer, redder, and just coincidently lie near the direction to NGC 6355.
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it’s full of stars!.........................
That’s beautiful!
Now that’s diversity!
All those different colored stars living harmoniously together.
Well, except for the ones that coliding, the ones robbing smaller nearby stars of their material, gravitationally locked stars that can’t escape each other, stars imploding into black holes, black holes sucking he life out of other stars, stars who have had enough and explode into supernovas.
There needs to be more universal inclusion and I blame the lack of harmony on the hot blue stars.
Harmony and diversity. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. The age-old struggle and balance between boredom and chaos.
The "Dindu Nuffins" of space . . .
The photos of late look to have been over sharpen and the color saturated. Not normal looking.
I like the hot blue stars. They’re hot and they are blue and welcome any attention.
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