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This picture shows a ground based image of open cluster Messier 44 with many blue stars, and a small callout box on its far southwest edge that shows the location of the Hubble image.

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The smaller, ground-based image (lower left) taken by the Digitized Sky Survey illustrates the small area of Messier 44 that Hubble observed.

Image Credit: Ground-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble image: NASA, ESA and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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Image CreditGround-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble image: NASA, ESA and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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