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Date: 25 October 2006 Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope Depicts: 47 Tucanae Copyright: Very Large Telescope/European Southern Observatory, R. Kotak and H. Boffin (ESO) Show in archive: true
A photo of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae taken with the Very Large Telescope, in Chile. It is one of the densest globular clusters in the southern hemisphere, containing one million stars.