The moment the two star clusters become one

The new image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA) shows that the two cluster clusters seem to be in the early stages of consolidation into one .

Two colliding star clusters are located about 170,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy next to our galaxy. These two star clusters are formed in the center of the giant star region called 30 Doradus , also known as the Tarantula nebula .

Two star clusters are merging into one of the Tarantula nebula. (Photo: Space)

Dr. Elena Sabb and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore (USA) discovered this amazing phenomenon when they were looking for "fleeing" stars originating from clusters. stars in the 30 Doradus area via the image sent by Hubble telescope.

Initially, astronomers thought that the two star clusters were close to each other as a single cluster, but the latest image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows that they are two separate clusters of stars and are much younger each other about 1 million years. They are joined together to form an extended star cluster instead of a sphere.

30 Doradus is an area with many new stars formed over the past 25 million years. Scientists found that many stars "fled" at high speed around this star-forming region. These stars can be released after the process of giant stars in the center of a cluster of stars that end its life.

'There are many stars formed in the 30 Doradus star region but not in this star-forming region. They were launched outside the 30 Doradus region at a very high speed , 'said Dr. Elena Sabb, head of the research, on Space.