This is a globular cluster, a sphere of tens of thousands of stars. Most of them are a whitish color, and more concentrated in the center of the sphere. As you move farther from the center, there are fewer stars.

C47 (NGC 6934)

This bright spray of stars is a globular cluster, which is a large ball of (typically) a few hundred thousand ancient stars that exist on the edges of galaxies. Lying 50 000 light-years from Earth, in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 6934 is home to some of the most distant stars still to be part of our galactic system — in a sense, it is a far-flung suburb to the Milky Way’s city centre.

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