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Zoom to NGC 6397

This video zooms into a Hubble Space Telescope view of globular star cluster NGC 6397.
  • Release Date
    April 4, 2018
  • Science Release
    Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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NGC 6397

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Hubble’s View of Dazzling Globular Star Cluster NGC 6397 This ancient stellar jewelry box, a globular cluster called NGC 6397, glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of stars. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to gauge the distance to this brilliant stellar...

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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