Study Discovers Enormous, Intermediate-Age Star Cluster in the Scutum Constellation
Written by AZoQuantumJun 3 2021
Under the guidance of the Stellar Astrophysics Group from the University of Alicante (UA), an international group of astrophysicists has found a huge cluster of stars of intermediate age in the direction of the Scutum constellation.
Region of the sky in which Valparaíso (1) is located. Image Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)
The study was also led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Valparaíso (Chile).
The object has been dubbed Valparaíso 1 and is situated some 7000 light-years away from the Sun and includes a minimum of 15,000 stars.