This ancient,
glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a
gathering of stars all held together by gravity that is slowly moving through
space on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest
galactic neighbors.
It has…this
is the amazing part…..a mass equivalent to roughly 140 000 Suns and an age of
around 13.1 billion years, making it almost as old as the Universe itself.
