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Twinkle twinkle thousands of stars

Image: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto (Universita degli Studi di Padova), and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
Image: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto (Universita degli Studi di Padova), and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

A recent image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the stunning NGC 2298 globular cluster, an assembly of thousands of stars bound by shared gravitational forces. Globular clusters like this one are generally populated by older stars and tend to loiter in the dust-filled peripheries of galaxies.

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