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So. Many. Stars…
Infrared image of globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) captured by ESO’s VISTA telescope.
“Oh my god, it’s full of stars!” said Dave Bowman in the movie 2010 as he entered the monolith, and one could imagine that the breathtaking view before him looked something like this.
Except this isn’t science fiction, it’s reality — this is an image of globular cluster 47 Tucanae taken by the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It reveals in stunning detail a brilliant collection of literally millions of stars, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy at a distance of 15,000 light-years.
The full image can be seen below.
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Post tags: 47 Tucanae, Astronomy, ESO, Globular Cluster, infrared, NGC 104, stars, VISTA
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