globular clusters

An unusual globular cluster on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, seen here in an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, features an unusual mix of young an old stars, possibly the result of an encounter with a giant gas cloud in the distant past.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures a striking view of the globular cluster M79, a vast assembly of some 150,000 stars in the constellation Lepus that includes, like all clusters of its type, some of the oldest suns in the Milky Way.