The American space agency NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of NGC 6530, which is a young open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Sagittarius, located some 4,350 light-years from Earth. Taking to Instagram, the space agency shared the image, which showed a collection of thousands of stars. Describing the image, the space agency wrote that "in every direction, cloudy waves and bands of red, orange, blue, green, and yellow crash over each other. Astronomers study planets using telescopes like the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, which took this image with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The formation and genesis of stars and exoplanetary systems can be studied because to the brilliant discs that encircle young stars.

Source: The Star December 18, 2022 04:07 UTC