Hubble still offers us a beautiful magical image. Indeed, the space telescope reveals to us an extremely distant globular cluster.
As you can see above, Hubble captured a startling new photo of the globular cluster Liller 1. Lille 1 is located about 30,000 light years from the Terre in the constellation Scorpio. Also called C 1730-333, it is located in the bulge of the milky wayin other words the dense and dusty region of the galactic center.
Liller 1 is also known to contain a mixture of young and old stars. “Globular clusters usually only house old stars, some nearly as old as the Universe itself. Liller 1 instead contains at least two distinct stellar populations with remarkably different ages: the oldest is 12 billion years old and the youngest is only 1–2 billion years old.”explained the Hubble astronomers. “This led us to conclude that this star system was capable of forming stars over an extraordinarily long period of time. »
The specialists finally explained that Liller 1 is very obscured by the “interstellar dust that scatters visible light very efficiently. Fortunately, some infrared and red visible light is able to pass through these dusty regions. »
