"Hubble telescope captures breathtaking image of dazzling globular cluster"
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new photo of Terzan 12, a globular cluster located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. Globular clusters are densely packed groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars bound together by gravity. The photo reveals the cluster shrouded in gas and dust, with a higher concentration of stars near its center. The interstellar dust particles scatter blue light, allowing only the redder wavelengths from the cluster to be seen. This image is part of an initiative to study the relationship between age and composition of globular clusters in the innermost region of the Milky Way galaxy.