# @optica.worldwide on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-AmyztJXze
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21468160-opticaworldwide-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f8d1cadac5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-07-29T14:10:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Optica (@optica.worldwide) — https://gondola.cc/optica.worldwide

## Caption

Image of the Week: Heavy-Metal Stars 

The 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind. They are enriched with much higher proportions of metals than stars found in similar clusters.

—NASA Goddard, USA

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#HeavyMetal #Stars #NGC 6496 #celestial #metals #clusters #nasa 
nasa

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## Tags

ngc, nasa, celestial, metals, heavymetal, stars, clusters

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