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Let’s go supergiant spotting!

This new #StarrySights image shows NGC 2002, an open star cluster 30 light-years across.

At its center, you can spy red supergiants – massive stars that are fusing helium after exhausting their hydrogen fuel: https://go.nasa.gov/3isScZs
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Hubble Observes an Outstanding Open Cluster

A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way containing numerous star-formi…
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Is it just me or do the red giants make a heart shape? #starrysights
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