Hubble Telescope Captures Globular Cluster NGC 6426 in Celebration of US 250th Anniversary
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Tracy Vogel
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of globular cluster NGC 6426, located in the outer halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The image features red, white, and blue stars resembling a sparkler, released to celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary. NGC 6426 is one of 150 known globular clusters in our galaxy, formed from the same collapsing cloud of gas.
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· 3 pulledRed, white, and blue stars glitter like a sparkler being waved on a dark night in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Located in the outer halo of our Milky Way galaxy, globular cluster NGC 6426 is a spherical collection of stars bound together by their mutual gravity.
These groups of stars are thought to form as a unit from the same collapsing cloud of gas, and thus the stars in the
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