Star clusters surround the galaxy in the constellation URSA major.
The image of the space telescope “Hubble shows star clusters surrounding the galaxy, like bees buzzing around the hive. Beehive, or rather lenticular galaxy NGC 5308, located just 100 million light-years away in the constellation URSA major.
Lenticular type galaxies lies somewhere between elliptical and spiral types. Galaxies such as NGC 5308, represent the galactic disk, which is used or lost most of its gas and dust. As a result, the galaxy is characterised by weak star formation, and therefore consists mainly of old and aging stars.
Around lenticular galaxies often rotate gravitationally bound collection of hundreds of thousands of old stars called globular clusters. These dense associations of stars that form a halo, revolving around the main body of the galaxy NGC 5308 and appearing as bright dots in the dark sky.
