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NASA looks for hidden monster, but Hubble Space Telescope snaps THIS
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NASA looks for hidden monster, but Hubble Space Telescope snaps THIS

[ad_1] NASA has been scouring the boundaries of space through the iconic Hubble Space Telescope for decades now and its latest mission has been to search for hidden monsters out there. While doing so, the Hubble Telescope snapped the densely packed globular cluster called NGC 6325. This concentrated group of stars lies around 26,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.What are globular clusters?These are tightly bound collections of stars with anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of members. The constituent stars of globular clusters tend to form at roughly the same time, meaning astronomers can use them to fine-tune their theories of how stars evolve. NGC 6325NGC 6325 globular cluster was inspected not to understand star formation, but to search for a hidden mo...