File:NGC 339.png

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Just a quick globular cluster. This one is in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Some background galaxies are scattered between the stars. The most prominent one is an elliptical galaxy in the upper left but there are a lot of spiral and lenticular disks peeking through as well.

This was part of a study on star clusters in the SMC measuring ages of stars and a bunch of other stuff I will not attempt to paraphrase because I'll probably get it wrong. See for yourself here*. Thanks, people who did proposal 10396!

  • Note: as of writing this, the site seems to be down. I don't know why that is but I would suggest checking back tomorrow. Alternatively, the abstract seems to be mirrored here.

Red: HST_10396_04_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci Green: Pseudo Blue: HST_10396_04_ACS_WFC_F555W_sci

North is NOT up. It is 43.8° counter-clockwise from up.
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Author Judy Schmidt from Fresh Meadows, NY, USA

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by geckzilla at https://www.flickr.com/photos/54209675@N00/15030281969. It was reviewed on 15 September 2014 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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