Caption: Using the Very Large Array (VLA), a large radio telescope, astronomers from the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Colorado have obtained images of what may be the youngest star clusters ever observed. The star clusters typically observed by astronomers range in age from millions to billions of years. These, as shown in the image here, are a mere 500,000 years old, analogous to the first day of life in human terms. The clusters were found in the galaxy Henize 2-10 (inset), a galaxy located 32 million light years from Earth in the constellation Pyxis.
Image by: Henry (Chip) Kobulnicky, UW-Madison; Kelsey Johnson, University of Colorado
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