white dwarfs in M4

M4 – a section that contains white dwarf examples.

In order to capture M4’s oldest white dwarfs, Hubble took many snapshots of the cluster in infrared, visible and ultraviolet light, which were combined into this image of a small portion of the cluster. These observations amounted to nearly eight days of exposure time over a 67-day period.

Credits: NASA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)