This Glittering Ball of Stars Is 160,000 Light-Years Away – And Hiding a Wild Secret

Hubble’s razor-sharp view of NGC 1786, a globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, lets astronomers peer 160,000 light-years back to study some of the universe’s oldest stars. By comparing these ancient stellar time capsules in dwarf galaxies to similar clusters in the Milky Way, researchers test whether multiple generations of stars are a cosmic [...]

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