{"id":293395,"date":"2025-09-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b194799278ded3385e04105382492f2f"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:00:00","slug":"hubble-surveys-cloudy-cluster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293395","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Surveys Cloudy Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ESA\/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, J. Ma\u00edz Apell\u00e1niz<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> image released on Sept. 12, 2025, features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to 10\u201320% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the dozens of small galaxies that orbit our galaxy.<\/p>\n

The Large Magellanic Cloud is home to several massive stellar nurseries where gas clouds, like those strewn across this image, coalesce into new stars. Today\u2019s image depicts a portion of the galaxy\u2019s second-largest star-forming region, which is called N11. (The most massive and prolific star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula<\/a>, is a frequent target for Hubble.) We see bright, young stars lighting up the gas clouds and sculpting clumps of dust with powerful ultraviolet radiation.<\/p>\n

This image marries observations made roughly 20 years apart, a testament to Hubble\u2019s longevity. The first set of observations, which were carried out in 2002\u20132003, capitalized on the exquisite sensitivity and resolution of the then-newly-installed Advanced Camera for Surveys<\/a>. Astronomers turned Hubble toward the N11 star cluster to do something that had never been done before at the time: catalog all the stars in a young cluster with masses between 10% of the Sun\u2019s mass and 100 times the Sun\u2019s mass.<\/p>\n

The second set of observations came from Hubble\u2019s newest camera, the Wide Field Camera 3<\/a>. These images focused on the dusty clouds that permeate the cluster, providing us with a new perspective on cosmic dust.<\/p>\n

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This NASA\/ESA\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0image released on Sept. 12, 2025, features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to 10\u201320% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-clusters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t