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Ancient stars in NGC 6397

Ancient stars in NGC 6397
Ancient stars in NGC 6397 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the images used to create this composite of globular cluster NGC 6397 in 2004 and 2005. Located 7,800 light-years from Earth, the cluster contains hundreds of thousands of ancient stars. NASA, ESA, Tom M. Brown (STScI), Stefano Casertano (STScI), Jay Anderson (STScI)