esahubble_heic0815c August 5th, 2008
Credit: ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)
Virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4458. Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0815c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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