47 Tucanae (IMAGE)

University of British Columbia

47 Tucanae

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47 Tucanae, 16,700 light-years from Earth, is 10.5 billion years old and one of the brightest of our galaxy's globular clusters.

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NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

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