![A globular cluster that looks like a very dense, ball-shaped collection of many shining stars in colors of white, yellow-orange, and blue. Some stars appear a bit larger and brighter than others, with the brightest having faint cross-shaped diffraction spikes. The cluster’s stars are scattered mostly uniformly, with their density increasing toward the cluster’s core where they merge into a strong, bright-white glow.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hubble-ngc2005-potw2424a.jpg)
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy some 162,000 light-years from Earth.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofe
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TakenMay 17, 2024
Image CreditESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofe
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