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).
Image: Hubble finds a field of stars retrieved 29 March 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-03-hubble-field-stars.html
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