Hubble Resolves Myriad Stars in Dense Star Cluster Omega Centauri

Hubble Resolves Myriad Stars in Dense Star Cluster Omega Centauri

This video pans across the Hubble Wide Field Camera 3’s panoramic view of 100,000 stars lying in the center of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri. The stars vary in age and change color as they get older. Most of them are middle-aged, yellowish stars like our Sun. However, as they near the end of their lives, they balloon into red giants, and later still, into hot, blue stars.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, NASA and the SM4 ERO Team

Duration: 25 seconds

Release Date: February 17, 2016

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