मूल चित्र ((999 × 1,009 पिक्सेल, फ़ाइल का आकार: 1.31 MB, MIME प्रकार: image/jpeg))

विवरण
English: Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the clearest view yet of one of the largest young clusters of stars inside our Milky Way galaxy, located less than 100 light-years from the very center of the Galaxy.

Having the equivalent mass greater than 10,000 stars like our sun, the monster cluster is ten times larger than typical young star clusters scattered throughout our Milky Way. It is destined to be ripped apart in just a few million years by gravitational tidal forces in the galaxy's core. But in its brief lifetime it shines more brightly than any other star cluster in the Galaxy.

Quintuplet Cluster is 4 million years old. It has stars on the verge of blowing up as supernovae. It is the home of the brightest star seen in the galaxy, called the Pistol star. This image was taken in infrared light by Hubble's NICMOS camera in September 1997. The false colors correspond to infrared wavelengths. The galactic center stars are white, the red stars are enshrouded in dust or behind dust, and the blue stars are foreground stars between us and the Milky Way's center.

The cluster is hidden from direct view behind black dust clouds in the constellation Sagittarius. If the cluster could be seen from earth it would appear to the naked eye as a 3rd magnitude star, 1/6th of a full moon's diameter apart.
दिनांक
स्रोत Great Images in NASA Description
लेखक NASA, Don Figer, STScI
अनुमति
(इस चित्र का पुनः उपयोग करना)
Public domain
This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.

The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.

For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.
This image or video was catalogued by Space Telescope Science Institute of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: GPN-2000-000908 and Alternate ID: PR99-30B.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Other languages:

चित्र का इतिहास

फ़ाइलका पुराना अवतरण देखने के लिये दिनांक/समय पर क्लिक करें।

दिनांक/समयथंबनेलआकारसदस्यप्रतिक्रिया
वर्तमान00:49, 9 अप्रैल 200900:49, 9 अप्रैल 2009 के संस्करण का थंबनेल संस्करण999 × 1,009 (1.31 MB)BotMultichillT{{Information |Description={{en|1=Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the clearest view yet of one of the largest young clusters of stars inside our Milky Way galaxy, located less t

निम्नलिखित पन्ने इस चित्र से जुडते हैं :

चित्र का वैश्विक उपयोग

इस चित्र का उपयोग इन दूसरे विकियों में किया जाता है:

मेटाडेटा