Nasa extends Diwali greetings with unique globular cluster containing old and new stars
Saturn's renowned rings to disappear from Earth's view from 2025; here's all you need to know "Happy #Diwali to all those who celebrate," NASA wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). "NASAHubble captured a celestial festival of lights -- a globular cluster -- 30,000 light-years away from Earth, near the dense and dusty center of our own Milky Way galaxy," it added. The US Space Agency said that the cluster contains both old and new stars.
Some range from 12 billion years old to about 2 billion years old. "This globular cluster is unlike others, containing both old and young stars," the agency posted on Instagram. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures new image of HH212 star formation, 1,300 light-years away from Earth "Some of the older stars are almost as old as the universe itself, around 12 billion years old, while the younger stars are around 1-2 billion years old," Nasa wrote.
Separately, a Nasa spacecraft recently discovered a tiny moon around asteroid. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft found a mini-moon near asteroid Dinkinesh. The discovery was made during a flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft encounters first asteroid on journey to Jupiter The Nasa spacecraft confirmed that Dinkinesh is barely a half-mile (790 meters) across. Its closely circling moon is a mere one-tenth-of-a-mile (220 meters) in size. NASA experts wanted India to share space technology after seeing Chandrayaan-3 craft development: ISRO chief Somanath NASA sent Lucy past Dinkinesh as a rehearsal for the bigger, more mysterious asteroids out near Jupiter.
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