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Composite image
Foreground:
Goethe Link Observatory circa 1949—Frank Edmondson, IU Bloomington
professor of astronomy, at the 10" telescope used for asteroid discoveries.
Photo courtesy of Indiana University Archives
Background:
Hubble snaps picture of remarkable double cluster—
Two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one
of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo's
centerpiece is a young, "globular-like" star cluster—a type of object
unknown in our own Milky Way Galaxy. The smaller second cluster
is below and to the right of the main cluster. The stars are surrounded
by a filigree pattern of diffuse gas, which scientists believe was
created by the explosion of massive stars.
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, and Martino Romaniello (European Southern
Observatory, Germany
Acknowledgments: The image processing for the background image was
done by Martino Romaniello, Richard Hook, Bob Fosbury and the Hubble
European Space Agency Information Center. Released July 10, 2001
For more galactic information from the Hubble space telescope gallery:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
Composite image by Becky Buher
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