The unusual cluster Terzan 5

Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of the very early days of the Milky Way.

This picture is from the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD), a prototype adaptive optics system used to demonstrate the feasibility of different techniques in the framework of the E-ELT and the second generation VLT Instruments. The star colours are from the Hubble image of the same star field.

Crédit:

ESO/F. Ferraro

À propos de l'image

Identification:eso1630a
Type:Observation
Date de publication:7 septembre 2016 16:00
Communiqués de presse en rapport:eso1630
Taille:1142 x 671 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:Terzan 5
Type:Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Open
Constellation:Sagittarius
Catégorie:Star Clusters

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Coordinates

Position (RA):17 48 4.85
Position (Dec):-24° 46' 55.54"
Field of view:0.95 x 0.56 arcminutes
Orientation:North is 90.2° left of vertical

Couleurs & filtres

DomaineLongueur d'ondeTélescope
Visible
V
606 nmHubble Space Telescope
ACS
Visible
I
814 nmHubble Space Telescope
ACS
Infrarouge
K
Very Large Telescope
ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD)