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IC 3506 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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IC 3506 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies

August 5, 2008 · ESA/Hubble · Virgo

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Virgo cluster galaxy IC 3506. Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.