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It's #HubbleFriday time!

This week's new image shows the globular cluster NGC 6652. Globular clusters are roughly spherical groups of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.

NGC 6652 is about 30 million light-years away: https://go.nasa.gov/3Oi5MLD
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Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic Cluster

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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I often wonder what the night sky would look like in the centre of a globular cluster like this

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