Hubble Catches Stars on the Move

There are surprising signs of unrest in a massive cluster of stars. By comparing observations made ten years apart of the nebula NGC 3603, astronomers have for the first time measured the tiny motions of several hundred young stars.


The results were surprising: this massive star cluster has not yet settled down. The stars? velocities are independent of their mass and thus still reflect the conditions from when the cluster formed, about a million years ago.

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