When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Terzan 5 could be a fossil fragment leftover from the formation of the Milky Way galaxy’s bulge, and is seen in this composite JWST–Hubble image. . | Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Giorgia Zullo and Francesco Ferraro (University of Bologna)/Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)A huge, shining bauble of stars called Terzan 5 could be a clump of our galaxy’s central bulge that hasn’t been smoothed out into the mix, and has instead survived as a fossil relic leftover from the birth of the Milky Way galaxy.”Terzan 5 may provide direct evidence that can help explain how bulges formed in galaxies throughout the universe,” said Barbara Lanzoni of the University of Bologna in a statement. Lanzoni is a member of a team of astronomers, led by Bologna colleagues Giorgia Zullo and Francesco Ferraro, who tackled Terzan 5 with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).AdvertisementAdvertisementTerzan 5 is a globular cluster — a huge sphere of stars with a total mass two million times greater than our
