A spherical mass of stars fills the scene. Bright-white stars are concentrated at image center. They taper off as you move toward the image's edge. Yellow and blue-white stars dot the region beyond the core.

Caldwell 104 (NGC 362)

Caldwell 104, also cataloged as NGC 362, is a globular star cluster located about 27,000 light-years away. Among the earliest homesteaders of the universe, globular clusters are snow-globe-shaped islands of several hundred thousand (or more) ancient stars.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA