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Terzan 12 Context Image
This composite image shows the location of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. [Top Frame]—A view of a section of our Milky Way in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Dense clouds of dust are etched across a whitish background of...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2023
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2023-021-01h7tfcd1x5dahj1emv0qrafg8
This composite image shows the location of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
[Top Frame]—A view of a section of our Milky Way in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Dense clouds of dust are etched across a whitish background of stars. The object at upper right is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.
[Bottom-left Frame]—Photo of a small portion of the Milky Way which is only one-degree across — twice the angular diameter of the full Moon. The globular cluster is in the middle of the box at image center.
[Bottom-right Frame]—A Hubble Space Telescope image of the dense globular star cluster Terzan 12. Intervening dust scatters starlight to create multiple reddish hues. The brightest red stars in the photo are bloated, aging giants, many times larger than our Sun. They lie between Earth and the cluster. Only a few may actually be members of the cluster. The very brightest hot, blue stars are also along the line of sight and not inside the cluster, which only contains aging stars. The cluster is about 15,000 light-years from Earth.
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NASA, ESA, Stéphane Guisard (ESO), Roger Cohen (RU), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), DSS, ESA/Hubble
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Terzan 12 |
| Object Description | Globular cluster |
| R.A. Position | 18:12:15.80 |
| Dec. Position | -22:44:31.00 |
| Constellation | Sagittarius |
| Distance | 15,000 light-years |
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