Hubble Telescope Captures Photo of the Galaxy’s Biggest Traffic Jam
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Image credit: NASA/ESA(NEW YORK) — An out-of-this world cluster of stars jam-packed with some of the brightest lights in the galaxy was recently spotted by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.
The “Arches Cluster” is the densest ever found in the Milky Way, the European Space Agency says.
Between two and four million years old, it’s relatively young — as astronomical objects go. The stars in the cluster, some of the brightest ever discovered, are so glowing and massive they will burn out and fade in just a few million years, a very short life for a star.
Earthlings won’t be dazzled by their glow any time soon though: the Arches Cluster is 25,000 light years from earth and obscured by giant dust clouds, remaining invisible to earth-bound eyeballs.
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