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| Star Cluster NGC 1850 is a young globular star cluster located some 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Globular star clusters are dense concentrations of up to one million stars, each of which share a common origin. Some globular star clusters are among the oldest objects in the universe, with ages of more than 12 billion years. But NGC 1850 is made up of stars that are only about 50 million years old. Young globular clusters such as NGC 1850 do not exist in our Milky Way galaxy and are seen only in some external galaxies. In this image, the star cluster is surrounded by wispy, diffuse gas, which was thrown off by explosions of massive stars in the cluster. NGC 1850 is located toward the constellation Dorado, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere. |
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