# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BipYFvKgaYz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11735239-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-05-11T18:03:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Located about 5,200 light years from Earth, this stellar cluster is at an ideal stage for studying its evolution: not long after star formation has stopped. In some ways, star clusters are like giant families with thousands of stellar siblings. The stars come from the same origins – a common cloud of gas and dust – and are bound to one another by gravity. By using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (chandraxray) to study young astral clans, like this one, astronomers hope to learn more about how stars – including our Sun – are born.

Credits: NASA/CXC/University of Valparaiso/M. Kuhn et. al WISE:NASA/JPL/WISE

#chandra #hubble #spitzer #telescope #astronomy #xray #nebula #space #nasa #astronomy #science #picoftheday #pictureoftheday

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