Hubble Telescope Captures Image of Ancient Globular Cluster NGC 2210

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the 11.6 billion-year-old cluster provides insights into old stellar populations and offers a star-filled view unlike our own.

• Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of an ancient globular cluster, NGC 2210, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
• The globular cluster, which is about 157,000 light-years from Earth, is densely packed with stars and is estimated to be around 11.6 billion years old.
• Despite being billions of years old, NGC 2210 is the youngest globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with others estimated to be over 13 billion years old.
• These clusters are of interest to astronomers as they provide insights into very old stellar populations, with their stability allowing them to last for billions of years.
• The night sky from a planet orbiting one of the stars in a globular cluster would appear to be filled with stars, creating a stellar environment thousands of times more crowded than our own.

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