This image depicts Ophion, a faint, scattered star cluster that was recently discovered by Gaia, a European space telescope. The cluster is centered about 650 light-years from Earth, and contains more than 1,000 stars, strewn across the plane of the Milky Way. Two of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are at lower right. [ESA/GAIA/DPAC]
Find out more in our radio program entitled Ophion.