Tuesday, December 12, 2017

SWIRLING SNOW GLOBE IS THE GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTER MESSIER 79

It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars.

This swirling snow globe is the globular star cluster Messier 79, located 41,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus.

http://go.nasa.gov/2kpo4g7



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