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Lessons from a globular cluster 🧑‍🏫

Globular clusters like Messier 30 (M30) are ancient, roughly spherical clusters of stars.

Ones that formed within the Milky Way, preserving the original chemistry of our young galaxy, help astronomers understand its history. 1/2
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Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month gives a lesson in galactic history!

This sparkling collection of stars, Messier 30 (M30), lies about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus 🌊🐐
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A star cluster seen up close, filling the view with thousands of stars. They are clearly divided between blue ones, which are scattered around the outskirts of the image but more towards the centre and are the majority in the bright core of the cluster, and yellow stars, which are present in the core but make up most of the cluster outside of that. A few orange stars are closer to us and appear noticeably larger.