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current	19:37, 28 June 2021		3,865 × 3,687 (5.51 MB)	commons>Fabian RRRR	== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information \|description={{en\|1=A Scattering of Stars A Scattering of Stars This Picture of the Week depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster — which is in the constellation Tucana (The Toucan) — contains a multitude of stars, many of which are scattered across this striking image. Pictures of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show us something new about the Unive...

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Source	ESA/Hubble
Credit/Provider	ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone
Short title	A Scattering of Stars
Image title	This Picture of the Week depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster— which is in the constellation Tucana (The Toucan) — contains a multitude of stars, many of which are scattered across this striking image. Pictures of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show us something new about the Universe. This image, however, also contains clues about theinner workings of Hubble itself. The criss-cross patterns surrounding the stars in this image — known as diffraction spikes — were created when starlight interacted with the four thin vanes supporting Hubble’s secondary mirror. As star clusters form from a single primordial cloud of gas anddust, all the stars they contain are roughly the same age. This makes them useful natural laboratories for astronomers to learn how stars form and evolve. This image uses observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, and incorporates data from two very different astronomical investigations. Thefirst aimed to understand why stars in star clusters appear to evolve differently from stars elsewhere, a peculiarity first observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The second aimed to determine how large stars can be before they become doomed to end their lives in cataclysmic supernova explosions. Links Video of A Scattering of Stars
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	06:00, 28 June 2021
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 22.3 (Windows)
File change date and time	17:10, 31 May 2021
Date and time of digitizing	20:12, 16 May 2021
Date metadata was last modified	19:10, 31 May 2021
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:3afe285d-7852-b942-9d88-b2d7ab397ad3
Keywords	NGC 330
Contact information	https://esahubble.org ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States
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