Work no. 6, 600 mm diameter, 2022
Celestial Collection, Jay Horan
The NGC4833 cluster of ancient stars are 22,000 light-years away from Earth, inspired the
work. In the heart of the constellation of Musca, the globular cluster is a tightly
packed collection of stars known as NGC 4833. The Hubble Space Telescope,
launched in 1990, captures many of the more than 150 globular clusters
known to reside in our galaxy, the Milky Way, of which NGC4833
is amongst the oldest of the ancient cosmic clusters known to date.
More than 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe, it is also estimated
that there are over 2 trillion galaxies known to us at this stage, with more breathtaking
clusters to be discovered as telescope technology in space improves, especially with the
new and most powerful telescope ever launched, the James Webb Space Telescope
‘JWST’, deployed in 2021. The piece inspired the crafting of the art piece
‘The James Webb Space Telescope and a Universe of Emotions’, work no. 7.
To view the exact location of the NGC4833 cluster from the Hubble
Space Telescope, go to the following interactive resource: https://esahubble.org/images/potw1631a/
Source
jwst.nasa.gov https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/micro20120111.html
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༺ ancient stars ༻
༺ ancient Domains ༻
༺ rujms with no names ༻
༺ i sustain what i engrain ༻
༺ a milliard stones ༻
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