Optical photograph of 47 Tucanae (NGC 104),a bright globular cluster in the constellation of Tucana. The cluster is one of the closest known. It lies some 16 thousand light years away and has a diameter of around 210 light years. 47 Tucanae is one of the many globular clusters of older stars which lie in a spherical "halo" around our galaxy | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / NOAO |
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