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Globular cluster M70 in Sagittarius

by

ESA/NASA/Novapix

Reference

a-agb66-81002

Date

2012-05-01

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact centre of Messier 70, a globular cluster. Messier 70 orbits close to the Milky Way's centre, around 30 000 light-years away from the Solar System. Messier 70 is only about 68 light-years in diameter and can be seen, albeit very faintly, with binoculars in dark skies in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). This picture was obtained with the Wide Field Camera of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The field of view is around 3.3 by 3.3 arcminutes.