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Samantha Mathewson

Bright cluster packed with stars shines in gorgeous new infrared image

A glob of stars in space

 A dense grouping of stars shines brightly in a new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). 

Astronomers using ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory in Chile captured a detailed view of the globular cluster NGC 6723, which is located about 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. 

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