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M79 Snow Globe Holiday Greeting

This special holiday snow globe greeting is a visualization of a rotating star cluster that provides three-dimensional perspective of globular cluster Messier 79 (M79). The simulated star cluster is modeled to reflect the number, color, and distribution of stars in a Hubble Space Telescope view of M79, but not its exact structure.
  • Release Date
    December 12, 2017
  • Science Release
    Hubble’s Celestial Snow Globe
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, J. DePasquale, D. Player, Z. Levay and G. Bacon (STScI)

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
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