File:Stellar Sweet Shop (50209610398).jpg
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Looking its best ever is the star cluster NGC 2203, here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Aside from its dazzling good looks, this cluster of stars contains lots of astronomical treats that have helped astronomers puzzle together the lifetimes of stars. A main sequence star, like our Sun, is the term applied to a star during the longest period of its life, when it burns fuel steadily. Our Sun’s fuel will run out in approximately 6 billion years, and it will then move on to the next stage of its life when it will turn into a red giant. Astronomers studying NGC 2203, which contains stars that are roughly twice as massive as our Sun, found that their rotation might be a factor as to why some of the stars stay longer than usual in this main-sequence phase of their life. This is the best resolution obtained of the star cluster to date. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi |
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Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 27 July 2020 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 15:59, 4 February 2020 |
Date and time of digitizing | 20:27, 31 October 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:59, 4 February 2020 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:ABC7783F8023E21187CDFADFB63A653D |
Keywords | NGC 2203 |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, None, D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |