NASA’s Hubble Reveals a Star-Spangled Stellar Masterpiece of 500,000 Ancient Stars

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More than 500,000 stars glow in shades of red, white, and blue in a spectacular new image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Released in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary, the image features Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s largest globular clusters. Globular clusters are dense, spherical groups of stars held [...]