HUBBLE ATLAS

Illustrations

View of a globular cluster (artist’s impression)

November 14, 2013 · ESA/Hubble

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This video shows an artist’s animation of a globular cluster. Globular clusters are huge balls of old stars that orbit the centres of galaxies. Many of them were once little galaxies, cannibalised by their larger companions over the history of the Universe.