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James Webb Space Telescope sees stars in Milky Way’s oldest cluster

Image of the globular cluster Messier 92 (M92) captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument. The black strip in the center is a chip gap, the result of the separation between NIRCam’s two long-wavelength detectors. The gap covers the dense center of the cluster, which is too bright to capture at the same time as the fainter, less dense outskirts of the cluster.  (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI))

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered inside one of the oldest star clusters of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing a region of our galactic halo teeming with brilliant stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope observed the Messier 92 globular cluster, also known as M92, early after coming online last summer. It took only one hour to capture the sparkling image above, according to a statement (opens in new tab) by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the observatory and released the image on Feb. 22. 

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