NASA. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE TELESCOPE. Many colorful... Lot 297

NASA. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE TELESCOPE. Many colorful stars are squeezed together in this image of a globular cluster taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This tight grouping of thousands of stars is located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The stars orbit closely together, like bees swarming around a hive. In the dense center of one of these clusters, the stars are 100 to 1000 times closer together than the stars closest to our Sun, making planetary systems around them unlikely. The striking difference between the colors of the stars is beautifully illustrated in this image, which combines two different types of light: blue stars, which shine brightest in the near ultraviolet, and red stars, illuminated in the red and near infrared. Space telescopes like Hubble can observe in the ultraviolet because they are positioned above the Earth's atmosphere, which absorbs most of this wavelength, making it inaccessible to ground-based facilities.Vintage chromogenic print. Numbering in the margin on the front. 40,6 X 40,6CM with margins.