47 Tucanae
Acquisition Details
- Date Posted: December 5, 2013
- Resolutions: 3090x3230 , 3090x3230 , 191x200
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Description
47 Tucanae orbits our Milky Way galaxy and resides in the southern constellation Toucan (Named for the South American Bird) and is 13,000 light-years distant. This extremely dense mass of several millions of stars occupies an amazingly small sphere that is only 120 light-years in diameter. There are also many red giants in 47 Tucanae which show up as yellow-orange stars. Very little is known about how globular clusters are created and how they keep from collapsing into a giant black hole.
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- Fred Herrmann
- October 22, 2015
- Followers 2
