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In Surprise Discovery, Astronomers Find Huge Star Cluster in Our Cosmic Backyard – ScienceAlert
A huge cluster of stars has been found lurking in the Milky Way, just a relatively short cosmic distance from our own Solar System.
A huge cluster of stars has been found lurking in the Milky Way, just a relatively short cosmic distance from our own Solar System.
Now around 75 million years old, the open cluster Valparaíso 1 is estimated to have contained around 10,000 solar masses’ worth of stars when it first blazed into existence.
At just 7,000 light-years away, several of its stars are bright enough to be seen through a telescope in your backyard, in a well-explored section of the sky although, despite this, it somehow managed…
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