HUBBLE ATLAS

Deep fields & lensing

Animation Zoom into M4 Globular Cluster

April 24, 2002 · NASA

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Sequence begins with a backyard view of the Scorpius region, then zooms to the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera view of the M4 globular star cluster, located in the Milky Way Galaxy's stellar halo. Circles fade in, indicating the location of the cooling white dwarf stars astronomers used to determine the age of the Universe.