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                                2018 October 3
                                      [2]
          NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
                Image Credit: ESA [3] / Hubble [4]  & NASA [5]

Explanation: Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every
spot in this glittering jewel [6] -box of an image from the Hubble Space
Telescope [7]  is a star. Now some stars are more red than our Sun [8] , and
some more blue -- but all of them are much farther away. Although it takes
light about 8 minutes to reach Earth [9]  from the Sun, NGC 1898 is so far
away that it takes light about 160,000 years [10]  to get here. This huge ball
of stars, NGC 1898 [11] , is called a globular cluster [12]  and resides in
the central bar [13]  of the Large Magellanic Cloud [14]  (LMC) -- a satellite
galaxy [15]  of our large Milky Way Galaxy [16] . The featured multi-colored
image [17]  includes light from the infrared [18]  to the ultraviolet [19] and
was taken to help determine if the stars of NGC 1898 [20]  all formed at the
same time, or at different times. There are increasing indications that most
globular clusters formed stars in stages [21] , and that, in particular, stars
from NGC 1898 formed [22]  shortly after ancient encounter [23] s with the
Small Magellanic Cloud [24]  (SMC) and our Milky Way Galaxy.

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