Scientists have found an extremely dense cluster of stars where collisions are thought to be regularly occurring. The ‘stellar billiards table’, located in our own Milky Way, was captured in a stunning image. And it could provide a fascinating opportunity to observe how stars are able to live together in such close proximity. The discovery was made by a team of scientists using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. Known as Liller 1, the cluster is difficult to study because of its distance, and also because it is located close to the centre of the Milky Way - about 3,200 light-years away.Scientists using a telescope in Chile spotted the distant star clusterCalled Liller 1, it is located near to the centre of the Milky WayThe region has many tightly packed stars that could collideWhen stars crash together they can form new exotic objects
Our own _ is known to have at least 150 such clusters, though it may have many more.