The 2021 Independence Day is here, the 245th one, and it will bring with it the normal speeches, tweets, firework displays, barbeques, and so on. This year, Independence Day also comes with a salute from stars that are 180,000 light-years away.Theres only one pic accompanying this piece (click image above to expand), one released by NASA a couple of days earlier. It shows something people who take a look at space for a living call the open star cluster NGC 330, in the Small Magellanic Cloud, at a distance so excellent it takes light, which moves at 186,282 miles per second (299,792 km per second), 180,000 years to reach us. And it shows stars illuminated in red, blue and white (and, given, some yellowish-orange), as if area was offering the good old U.S. of A a huge nod.The image was caught by the aging but still capable Hubble Space Telescope and includes an impossible-to-count variety of stars. According to NASA, the stars in this cluster, like all stars in all other clusters, are approximately the exact same age, making them helpful for people who are attempting to find out how stars form and evolve.The image was captured with Hubbles “Field Camera 3 and incorporates information from two really various astronomical investigations.” It reveals some of the stars with crisscross patterns around them, a phenomenon, called diffraction spikes, which is the outcome of starlight engaging “with the four thin vanes supporting Hubbles secondary mirror.”As for the colors of each of the stars, everything come down to temperature. Cooler ones appear red, while warmer ones yellow or white. Really hot ones reveal up as blue.