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English: This illustration shows the fundamental architecture of our island city of stars, the Milky Way galaxy: a spiral disk, central bulge, and diffuse halo of stars and globular star clusters. Not shown is the vast halo of dark matter surrounding our galaxy. A comprehensive survey that combines the observing prowess of both the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite measured the total mass of our galaxy at 1.5 trillion solar masses. Only a few percent of the estimated 200 billion stars in our galaxy contributes to this total. Most of the rest is locked up in invisible dark matter. The precision of Hubble and Gaia each allowed astronomers to measure the movement of the isolated spherical islands called globular star clusters. The more massive a galaxy, the faster its clusters move under the pull of gravity. And, this allows for the mass of our galaxy to be calculated. |
Date | 7 March 2019 (upload date) |
Source | Globular Clusters around Milky Way |
Author | NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) |
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Image title | A star forming region called BG2107+49 shines from the considerable distance of more than 30,000 light years away in the upper left of this image. With GLIMPSE360's resolution and sensitivity, however, astronomers can "zoom in" on the action of star birth unfolding there, where behemoth stars ten to twenty times the mass of our sun are taking shape. To the right looms an expanding bubble of star formation likely triggered by powerful stellar winds blown from an earlier generation of stars that arose in the ring's center. The smattering of little red dots in the area and elsewhere are young forming stars still cocooned in gas and dust. This image is a combination of data from Spitzer and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The Spitzer data was taken after Spitzer's liquid coolant ran dry in May 2009, marking the beginning of its "warm" mission. Light from Spitzer's remaining infrared channels at 3.6 and 4.5 microns has been represented in green and red, respectively. 2MASS 2.2 micron light is blue. |
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