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Hubble Sees a Youthful Cluster

First observed by John Herschel in 1835, NGC 1783 is nearly 160,000 light-years from Earth, and has a mass around 170,000 times that of the sun.
By measuring the colour and brightness of individual stars, astronomers can deduce an overall age for a cluster and a picture of its star formation history. NGC 1783 is thought to be less than one and a half billion years old - which is very young for globular clusters, which are typically several billion years old. During that time, it is thought to have undergone at least two periods of star formation, separated by 50 to 100 million years.
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NGC 1783 (also ESO 85-SC29) is a magnitude +10.9 globular cluster in the constellation Dorado in the southern sky. The cluster is one of the largest in the Large Magellanic Cloud and dated as 1.4 ±0.2 billion years old.
The globular cluster was discovered on the 13th December 1835 by John Herschel with a 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, and later discovered by John Louis Emil Dreyer and added to the New General Catalogue list.

R.A.: 04h 59m 08,8s, Dec: -65° 59' 07"



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