Study Discovers Enormous, Intermediate-Age Star Cluster in the Scutum Constellation
Written by AZoQuantumJun 3 2021
Under the guidance of the Stellar Astrophysics Group from the University of Alicante (UA), an international group of astrophysicists has found a huge cluster of stars of intermediate age in the direction of the Scutum constellation.
Region of the sky in which Valparaíso (1) is located. Image Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)
The study was also led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Valparaíso (Chile).
The object has been dubbed Valparaíso 1 and is situated some 7000 light-years away from the Sun and includes a minimum of 15,000 stars.
New NASA photo shows our galaxy’s ‘violent energy’
NASA has released an image detailing the never-before-seen “violent energy” at the center of our galaxy, created after two decades of research.
The stunning panorama was compiled using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
Images also documented an X-ray thread known as G0.17-0.41 that researchers say suggests a mechanism that could control the energy flow, and even the evolution of the Milky Way.
“The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang explained in a statement. “We know the centers of galaxies are where the action is and play an enormous role in their evolution.”