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Welcome to the first #HubbleFriday of 2023!

This image features the star cluster NGC 6355, which resides within our own Milky Way Galaxy at a distance of about 50,000 light-years.

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Hubble Gazes at Colorful Cluster of Scattered Stars

The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Anthony Kerr (DG)
Anthony Kerr (DG)
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Amazing! Approximately how many stars are in this image?
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Buster McNutt
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Hello I have questions like if that star cluster was contained in a sphere, what's its radius? How many stars are there? What is the average distance between stars? What happens to star clusters over time?

I'll take me answers off the air, thanks.

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