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The Hubble Space Telescope photographed the star cluster NGC 1651, located in the Table Mountain constellation. This was reported by the ESA observatory, according to Ukrinform’s report. The
This was reported by the ESA observatory, according to Ukrinform’s report.
The space object is located about 162,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LLC), the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s companion galaxies.
A notable feature of this image is that although the star clusters are only 10 to 300 light-years in diameter, the star cluster fills almost the entire image. In comparison, NGC 1651 is approximately 120 light-years in diameter.
Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer
It is noted that it is a common misconception that Hubble and other large telescopes manage to observe celestial objects of very different sizes by zooming in, as can be done with a special camera on Earth.
However, small telescopes may have some zooming in and out, while large telescopes do not.
Each telescope instrument has a fixed “field of view” (the size of the area of sky it can view in a single observation).
The discoverer of NGC 1651 is astronomer John Herschel, who first observed the object on November 3, 1834.
As reported by Ukrinform, the Hubble space telescope photographed the false galaxy UGC 5829, located in the constellation Leo Minor.
Source: Ukrinform
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