The unusual cluster Terzan 5
Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of the very early days of the Milky Way.
This picture is from the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD), a prototype adaptive optics system used to demonstrate the feasibility of different techniques in the framework of the E-ELT and the second generation VLT Instruments. The star colours are from the Hubble image of the same star field.
Credit:ESO/F. Ferraro
About the Image
| Id: | eso1630a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 7 September 2016, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1630 |
| Size: | 1142 x 671 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Terzan 5 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Open |
| Constellation: | Sagittarius |
| Category: | Star Clusters |
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Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 17 48 4.85 |
| Position (Dec): | -24° 46' 55.54" |
| Field of view: | 0.95 x 0.56 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 90.2° left of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical V | 606 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical I | 814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared K | Very Large Telescope ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) |