Massive Globular Star Cluster : NGC 1866

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Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. Located in the constellation of Dorado, at the very edges of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy located near the Milky Way, which is approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth, this globular star cluster shows one of them: NGC 1866.

Credit: Hubble & NASA
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