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VCC 1993 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies

VCC 1993 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies


Date: 05 August 2008
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: VCC 1993
Copyright: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

Virgo cluster galaxy VCC 1993.

Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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