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Hubble telescope captures star-studded image of globular cluster

Hubble telescope captures star-studded image of globular cluster

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering image of the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the Sagittarius constellation. The image was taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. This is a composite image of an area of the sky that encompasses both instruments’ different fields of view. Globular clusters […]

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Hubble captures a globular cluster that looks like a sea of sequins

Hubble captures a globular cluster that looks like a sea of sequins

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NASA has released an image of the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stable, tightly bound clusters of tens of thousands to millions of stars are called globular clusters and they are found across a variety of galaxies. They get their regular, spherical shape from the intense […]

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