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Lessons from a stellar instructor
Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month gives us a lesson in galactic history. This sparkling collection of stars is named Messier 30 (M30) after Charles Messier, the French astronomer who catalogued M30 and other diffuse objects that might be mistaken for comets. M30 lies about 27 500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus . M30 is a globular cluster : a roughly spherical star cluster containing anywhere…
- Credit
- ESA/Hubble & NASA
- Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- Hubble release page
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