Hubble Space Telescope Captures A Nearby Galaxy's Open Star Cluster
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has took a breathtaking image of the NGC 1858 open star cluster
Abhishek Joshi
NGC 1858, located in the constellation Dorado, is home to several large stars
The NGC 1858 is about 160,000 light-years away
"An open star cluster northwest part of the Large Magellanic cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, shows an abundance of star-forming regions. Open clusters are a type of star cluster with loose gravitational attraction between the stars, which causes the cluster to be more spread out and unusually shaped," NASA posted.
Astronomers at NASA estimate that this star cluster is about 10 million years old
NGC 1858 is an emission nebula, which is a cloud of interstellar gas that has been ionised by UV radiation from nearby stars
The colour and size of the stars differ as some appear as dots, while others are large enough to catch the telescope's trademark artefact of four spikes