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nasaNothing like a clear view @NASAHubble captured an image of this previously unexplored globular cluster in the Milky Way, Palomar 8. A globular cluster is a collection of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity in a spherical shape – like a globe. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ histories in regions rich in gas and dust. Since the stars form from the same cloud of gas as it collapses, they typically hover around the same age. The density of stars at the centers of these groupings is so high that individual stars are hard to discern, even with powerful telescopes on Earth. However, Hubble can! This image is part of a study that uses Hubble to distinguish individual stars of the entire globular cluster system of the Milky Way. These observations will give us key information on the early stages of our galaxy. Image description: Bright stars cluster against a black background. The stars are more densely concentrated in the center of the image. The stars appear mostly white, but bright red and blue stars are also visible sprinkled throughout the image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Massari (INAF — Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) #NASA #Stars #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Hubble #Astronomy
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![We’ve got our shades on for summer 😎☀️
NASA technicians recently installed our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s solar array Sun shield — the set of solar panels that will travel with Roman a million miles away into space! These panels will power the entire observatory and help keep the instruments cool by shading them from sunlight.
Together with Roman’s visor-like sunshade and outer barrel assembly — which will house the telescope and instruments — the solar array Sun shield will soon undergo testing to ensure a successful launch.
The team is on track to connect Roman’s two halves in November, resulting in a complete observatory by the end of the year. Roman remains on schedule for launch by May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026.
Once in space, Roman’s large, crisp view will unveil more than 100,000 distant worlds, 100 million stars, more than a billion galaxies, and countless other cosmic objects, gathering clues to mysteries like dark energy and dark matter. We stand poised at the brink of unfathomable scientific discovery.
Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Music: “Turbulent Grace,” Tom Samson [PRS], Nick Reeves [PRS], and Graham Harding [PRS], Universal Production Music
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