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This star chart for Caldwell 84 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 84.

This image features the nearly spherical globular star cluster Caldwell 84. It is a composite of observations taken in visible...

The nearly spherical globular star cluster Caldwell 84 is dense and thick with stars. Whiter stars appear near the center and blue and red stars farther out.

This star chart for Caldwell 83 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of C 83

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the upper right, includes an outline that shows the region...

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the upper right, shows the entire long, edge-on galaxy and includes an outline that shows the region near the center of Caldwell 83 observed by Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. To the left is the Hubble image, showing dark dust lanes scattered with white and red stars.

Caldwell 83, or NGC 4945, is a barred spiral galaxy (like our Milky Way) that appears edge-on. This composite image...

Dark lanes of dust and gas are scattered with red and white stars. The image has the step-shape format caused by the WFPC2 camera.

This star chart for Caldwell 82 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of C82.

This image provides context for Hubble’s observation of Caldwell 82 (NGC 6193). The image on the left is a ground-based...

On the left is a ground-based image from a telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), showing clouds of reddish gas and dark dust with a bright but indistinct haze of stars at their center. On the right is Hubble's image of several bright whitish stars surrounded to dimmer red stars.

This open star cluster, Caldwell 82 (or NGC 6193), is host to about 30 stars.

Several very bright whitish stars are clustered together, with a number of smaller and dimmer red stars around them.

This star chart for Caldwell 81 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C81.

This Hubble image of C81 uses just two Advanced Camera for Surveys filters in visible and infrared light.

A grouping of mostly blue and white stars with two bright red stars to the right.

Caldwell 81, or NGC 6352, is a loose globular star cluster located roughly 20,000 light-years from Earth and located in...

A cluster of bright blue and yellow stars against the black background of space. A single bright red star is to the far right.

This star chart for Caldwell 80 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of 80.

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured this image in ultraviolet and visible light showing 100,000 stars in the core of...

A field shows closely packed yellow, blue and red stars against the black background of space.

This Hubble image, which includes ultraviolet and visible light captured by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 1997,...

A stair-shaped image of C80 caused by design of WFPC2 shows a section of the cluster thick with yellow, white and the occasional blue star.

This Hubble image shows off 2 million members of the biggest and brightest ball of stars in our galaxy. Caldwell...

A compact spherical cluster of so many stars that their light blurs together.

This star chart for Caldwell 79 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C79.

A Hubble image of stars at the center of the glittering globular cluster Caldwell 79 combines visible and ultraviolet observations...

A field of large bright yellow stars and smaller blue and white stars.

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Star chart for Caldwell 78 showing the outlines of constellations and the location of C78.

This image of globular star cluster Caldwell 78, also known as NGC 6541, is a composite of observations taken in...

A bright, compact, spherical cluster of stars in colors of white, blue and red.

This star chart for Caldwell 77 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C77.

The infrared image in the lower right, taken by Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), shows the bright...

An image in the lower right shows the bright core of Centaurus A, a bright white region, surounded by red patches immediately to the upper left and lower right of the core. On the left, a white square in the Wide Field shows a Hubble image of the center of Centaurus A, a bright yellow glowing region filled with dark dust lanes.

The Hubble image (on the right), showing dust and stars near the center of Centaurus A, is a combination of...

Upper-left corner: a ground-based image of the galaxy looks like a bright-white ball of stars with a dark dust lane through its middle. A box outlines the area Hubble image. The rest of the image holds Hubble's view. A dusty streak stretches from the upper-right corner to the lower left. A background yellow-orange glow cuts through the dust.

Caldwell 77, also cataloged as NGC 5128 and commonly called Centaurus A, is a peculiar elliptical galaxy that consists of...

C77 is a mixture of prominent dark dust lanes and bright yellow glowing areas sprinkled with red groupings of stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 76 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart for Caldwell 76

In the upper right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 76 (NGC 6231) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). An...

In the upper right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 76 (NGC 6231) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), showing a cluster of many stars. In the left is a Hubble closeup of some of its stars, which are variously bright and blue-white and red.

This image of Caldwell 76, also known as NGC 6231. combines observations taken at ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths by...

Several bright stars in colors of blue-white and red against the black background of space.

This star chart for Caldwell 74 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C74 next to the constellation Vela at the top, in the southern night sky in March at 10pm.

Also known as the "Eight-Burst Nebula", C74 is a striking example of a planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas...

A bright star shines at the center of a rainbow-colored "bubble" spreading outward from it. The inner oval around the star is a turquoise color, which has a yellow ring around it, which then turns to orange, and has red wisps at the outer edges.

This star chart for Caldwell 73 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C73 to the right of the constellation Columba, in the southern night sky in January at 10pm.

Caldwell 73 is a densely-packed globular cluster of stars. Unlike the stars in many known globular clusters, which are about...

This is a globular cluster, a sphere of tens of thousands of stars. Most of them are a whitish color, but there are many bright red, yellow, and blue stars mixed in. The stars are more concentrated in the center of the sphere. As you move farther from the center, there are fewer stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 72 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C72 between the constellations Phoenix (below) and Sculptor (above), in the southern night sky in October at 10pm.

The mosaic at the bottom captures countless stars in an outer portion of the disk of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55)....

This is a mosaic-like inset of C72, with a high concentration of stars on the left (the center of the galaxy) fading out to be thinner on the right (the galactic edge).

At top right, a ground-based image of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) includes an outline...

This is an inset image of C72 near the galactic center. The most notable feature is a "chunk" of bright blue stars on the lower left of the inset.

At lower left, a ground-based image of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) includes a box...

The image of C72's galactic center is shown to be inset from a flat spiral galaxy.

This image, showing a central part of Caldwell 72, is a composite of visible and infrared observations made by Hubble’s...

The center of the galaxy glows in a pinkish-white, and is tilted diagonally, going up-right and down-left. Black clouds of dust are visible around the center, and in the lower left corner, thick blue "clumps" of stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 71 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C71 in the constellation Puppis, in the southern night sky in February at 10pm.

The ground-based image in the upper right, from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), provides a wide view of the star...

Two different Hubble images of C71 are shown side-by-side, with a ground-based observatory's more zoomed-out image in the upper right.

Caldwell 71 is an open cluster, a loosely bound collections of stars. However, it is relatively compact and strikingly spherical,...

Several very bright stars are scattered throughout the field of view, with many fainter ones behind them. Of the four brightest stars, two have a reddish-orange hue, one is reddish-white, and one is bluish-white.

This star chart for Caldwell 70 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C70 above the constellation Phoenix and to the left of Sculptor, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in the image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are...

The very center of the galaxy glows bright white. All around it, the white stars of its spiral arms resemble grains of sand. There are scattered dark tufts of dust and gas scattered throughout.