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Many colorful stars are packed close together in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 1805.
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This tight grouping of thousands of stars is located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.
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The stars orbit close to one another, like bees swarming around a hive.
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In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun.
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The striking difference in star colors shows in this image: blue stars, shining brightest in near-ultraviolet light, and red stars, illuminated in red and near-infrared.
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NGC 1805 is unusual as it appears to host two different populations of stars with ages millions of years apart.
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