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IC 3506 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies

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Virgo cluster galaxy IC 3506. 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.

Credit: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)

 

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Id:heic0815d
Object:IC 3506
Type:Galaxies
Instru-ment:ACS
Width:2000
Height:2000

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