Zooming in on The Globular Star Cluster NGC 3201 | ESO/Hubble

Zooming in on The Globular Star Cluster NGC 3201 | ESO/Hubble

This video takes us towards the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails), where we find the bright globular star cluster NGC 3201. This huge and ancient ball of stars has been found to harbor an invisible black hole with four times the mass of the Sun. The final sharp view of the center of the cluster comes from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Distance: 16,000 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/European Space Agency (ESA)/NASA/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: January 15, 2018

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