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Close-up: NGC 6717—A Glittering Globular Cluster in Sagittarius
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Close-up: NGC 6717—A Glittering Globular Cluster in Sagittarius | HubbleThis star-studded image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717. It lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. NGC 6717 is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical collection of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters contain more stars in their centers than their outer fringes, as this…
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