A cluster of young stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
This is a public domain image from the GRIN Great Images In NASA Collection within the NASA image archive.
This public domain photo from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cluster of young stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Larger than 10,000 of our stars, this cluster is located less than 100 light years from the center of our galaxy.
This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – NASA. NASA is an Agency of the United States Government, therefore this image is in the public domain.
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