View of a globular cluster (artist’s impression)
This video shows an artist’s animation of a globular cluster. Globular clusters are huge balls of old stars that orbit the centres of galaxies. Many of them were once little galaxies, cannibalised by their larger companions over the history of the Universe.
Credit:NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser
About the Video
| Id: | heic1321c |
| Release date: | 14 November 2013, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1321 |
| Related announcements: | ann1311 |
| Duration: | 27 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular |
| Category: | Star Clusters |
