# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CbgNIZmu07U
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11732949-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-24T22:23:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

It’s not the years…it’s the mileage 🤠

Scientists studying the origins of our galaxy can sometimes feel like they are cosmic archeologists, uncovering the building blocks of our galaxy’s earliest days. One way astronomers can get a better sense of the foundations of our solar system is by observing ancient stellar relics like white dwarf stars, the immensely dense remnants of once-massive stars. 

NASAHubble captured a collection of these galactic monuments 26,000 light-years from Earth. These primordial remains are from stars that formed quickly, at least on a cosmic timescale, in less than 2 billion years. Since we know the location of these white dwarf stars, we can tell how fast and far they move compared to the rest of our galaxy. 

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Calamida and K. Sahu, and the SWEEPS Science Team

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