The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the 'glittering swarm' of stars of the globular cluster NGC 6440, located some 28,000 light-years away in Sagittarius.
The cluster is located in the constellation Sagittarius, some 28,000 light-years away.
Globular clusters like NGC 6440 are tightly-packed collections of stars that live on the edges of galaxies. They can hold anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that average about one light-year apart. However, they can be as close together as the size of our solar system. Looking like a glittering swarm of buzzing bees, the stars of globular cluster NGC 6440 shine brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The cluster is located some 28,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.
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