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Location of the C-19 stellar stream
This illustration shows the location of the C-19 stellar stream (orange vertical stream of stars in lower left), which was recently discovered at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. Observations using the Gemini North Telescope reveal the stars in this stream were once part of an ancient globular star cluster that was torn apart by gravitational interactions with our galaxy.
[NOIRLab is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Gemini Observatory reveals primordial stellar stream is a shredded star cluster. (Date image taken: 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 24, 2022)
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine; acknowledgment: M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) (Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)
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