NGC 1850: Gas Clouds and Star Clusters
Explanation:
There's nothing like it in
our own Galaxy.
Globular clusters as young as
NGC 1850 don't exist here.
Globular clusters
only 40 millions of years old
can still be found in the neighboring
LMC galaxy,
though, but perhaps none so unusual as
NGC 1850.
Close inspection of the
above photograph will reveal two clusters.
Below and right of the main group of stars known as
NGC 1850A is a smaller, still younger group dubbed
NGC 1850B.
This cluster is made of stars
only about four million years old.
The large red cloud of gas surrounding the
clusters may have been predominantly created by
supernovae explosions of stars in the younger cluster.
The red
supernova remnant
N57D is visible on the upper left.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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