A cluster of blue stars with two bright yellow stars near the top of the image is to the left. A callout box on a section of that image points to a larger image at the right of several very bright large stars.

Caldwell 96 (NGC 2516) Inset

The image in the upper right, taken with a single infrared filter by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows stars near the center of Caldwell 96 (NGC 2516), along with several background galaxies, which appear as extended, fuzzy objects. A ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), in the lower left, includes an outline showing what part of the cluster was observed by Hubble.

Credits: Ground-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble images: NASA, ESA, and A. Saha (NOAO); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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Image CreditGround-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble images: NASA, ESA, and A. Saha (NOAO); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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