Stellar cluster glitters in new Hubble Space Telescope photo
"The intense gravitational attraction between the closely packed stars gives globular clusters a regular, spherical shape," European Space Agency officials
."As a result, images of the hearts of globular clusters, such as this observation of Terzan 2, are crowded with a multitude of glittering stars." The recent Hubble image, which the ESA shared on July 11, was captured using the space telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys and its Wide Field Camera 3. Hubble detects light from distant astronomical objects, which is then reflected off its secondary mirror to smaller mirrors that direct the light into individual instruments.
The recent observations of Terzan 2 look similar to another globular cluster called Terzan 9, which is located in the constellation
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