UNA GILA MÁS

(Mercedes Romero Russo)

Pumpkin space latte, anyone? ☕

Hubble captured this festive array of stars, Terzan 12, found in the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in this cluster are bound together by gravity in a sphere-like shape and are shrouded in gas and dust. As the starlight travels through that gas and dust to Earth, blue light scatters, leaving the redder wavelengths to come through.

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(1) NGC 6956 barred spiral galaxy exists 214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus. (2) Interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255 containing active galactic nuclei, or Agnes aka an extraordinarily luminous central region of a galaxy where its extreme brightness is caused by matter whirling into a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s heart.