Globular Star Cluster
Astronomers have long thought that globular star clusters had a single baby boom of stars early in their lives and then settled into a quiet existence. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provide evidence that star birth went boom, boom, boom, with three generations of stars forming very early in the cluster's life.
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