Zooming in on Globular Star Cluster NGC 6362 in Ara | ESO/Hubble

Zooming in on Globular Star Cluster NGC 6362 in Ara | ESO/Hubble

This video starts with a broad view of the Milky Way galaxy. We close in gradually on a fuzzy blob in the southern constellation of Ara (The Altar). This is one of more than 150 globular star clusters that orbit the center of our galaxy. The main image of the cluster used here comes from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile and the final detailed view of the center from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Distance: 25,000 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/NASA/ESA/Hubble, Nick Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2012

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