Hubble's Snow Globe (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble's Snow Globe

Caption

The stars in the globular star cluster Messier 79 look a lot like a blizzard in a snow globe in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.

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NASA and ESA, Acknowledgment: S. Djorgovski (Caltech) and F. Ferraro (University of Bologna)

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