City of Stars - 47 Tucanae (Ground-Based Image)
The picture at left, taken by a terrestrial telescope, shows most of the cluster, a tightly packed group of middle-aged stars held together by mutual gravitational attraction. The box near the center represents a Hubble Space Telescope segment, which shows approximately 35, 000 stars.
Credit:
David Malin (Anglo-Australian Observatory).
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0033c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 31 October 2000, 07:00 |
| Size: | 800 x 623 px |
About the Object
| Name: | 47 Tucanae, NGC 104 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular • Star Clusters Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 15000 light years |
