Apr 30, 2024, 08:50 AM IST

Stunning photos of stars captured by NASA

Ritik Raj

Star clusters that are closely packed together and have tens of thousands to millions of members are known as globular clusters, such as NGC 6325.

Situated in the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud is home to this 100 million-year-old globular cluster, which serves as the cradle for several billion stars.

A young stellar grouping situated in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is responsible for these brilliant stars that seem to be a haze in the night sky.

This massive cluster of bright stars is known as Hodge 301 by astronomers because it is situated in the nearby universe's most active starburst region.

The much larger emission nebula known as NGC 6357, which is situated approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth, contains the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Situated in the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud is home to this 100 million-year-old globular cluster, which serves as the cradle for several billion stars.

The stars gleam a few times brighter against a backdrop of tiny pinpricks of light. This entire group is NGC 1858, an open star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud's northwest.

This image of the globular cluster NGC 1805 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope shows a lot of colourful stars clustered together.

These were some of the most massive stars in NGC 6397 before they burned out and turned into white dwarfs.