Peer into the vibrant core of a starburst galaxy, where new stars are forming & springing to life. This galaxy, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, is located approximately 50 million light-years away from Earth. Spanning 15,000 light-years, the galaxy displays massive and violent bursts of star formation, as shown by the hot, young, and blue stars scattered throughout the galaxy's rose-tinted core. Despite their appearance, the fuzzy white blobs dotted around the edge of this galaxy are not stars, but globular clusters. Found within a galaxy's halo, globular clusters are ancient collections of hundreds of thousands of stars. They orbit around galactic centers like satellites - the Milky Way, for example, hosts over 150 of them.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
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