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Notice how all of humanity has just gone downhill since they declared that Pluto was not a planet anymore

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The Hubble Extreme Deep Field

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field is most distant image of the Universe ever created.  Its diameter is one tenth the width of the full moon, its area is one 30 millionth of the entire sky.  Within this field of view there are more than 5000 galaxies, 600 trillion stars and 50 quadrillion planets and moons. The light from the most distant visible objects was created more than 13 billion years ago, when the Universe was only 5% of it’s current age.  This photograph is a slice of infinity, proof of the immense scale of reality.

(Source: spacetelescope.org)

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Rainbow Star Cluster Sparkles in Stunning Hubble Photo

The globular cluster Messier 9 shines in this new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA & ESA

Hundreds of thousands of glittering stars shine in a cluster at the center of our galaxy in a new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The cluster is called Messier 9, and contains hordes of stars swarming in a spherical cloud about 25,000 light-years from Earth. The object is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, and when it was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764, the scientist could only resolve it as a faint smudge that he classified as a nebula (“cloud” in Latin).

Now, though, the Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to make out more than 250,000 individual stars in Messier 9, in a new picture released today (March 16). The bluer points indicate hotter stars, while the redder stars are cooler.

Messier 9 is what’s known as a globular cluster, containing some of the oldest stars in the galaxy in a clump that is thought to have formed together when the universe was much younger. These stars, which are about twice as old as the sun, are made of different materials than our star. They tend to lack the sun’s heavier elements, such as oxygen, carbon and iron, which were only present in larger quantities when the universe was older.