Hubble Captures Image Of Globular Cluster Named  'Celestial Festival Of Lights'

By- Shivanshi Srivastava

NASA shared an image of a globular cluster captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The space agency called the cluster a ''celestial festival of lights."

Taking to social media, NASA shared a breathtaking picture of thousands of brightly lit stars and wrote, ''Happy #Diwali to all those who celebrate.

The global cluster is a tightly bound cluster of millions of stars, located 30,000 light-years away from Earth.

The agency said that the cluster contains both old and new stars. Some range from 12 billion years old to about 2 billion years old.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched on April 24, 1990.

It has made more than 1.4 million observations of nearly 47,000 celestial objects.

Hubble Space Telescope was named after Edwin P Hubble, who confirmed that our universe was constantly expanding.