More than 500,000 stars shine red, white and blue in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The image shows Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured infrared light from numerous features that were previously impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to the countless background galaxies that come into view like fireworks for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, this image flickers with a series of protostars, or