This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster image, NGC 1651 is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). One notable feature of this image: the roughly 120-light-year diameter globular […]
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Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, Missions, Star Clusters, Stars, The Universe
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March 29, 2024
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