Hubble Image of Messier 3 (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Image of Messier 3

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Messier 3: Containing an incredible half-million stars, this 8-billion-year-old cosmic bauble is one of the largest and brightest globular clusters ever discovered.

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ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.

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