HUBBLE ATLAS
Central region of our HST image of NGC 7252 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Star clusters

Central region of our HST image of NGC 7252

October 21, 1997 · NASA · Aquarius

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In NGC 7252, where we had discovered ~40 globular clusters with the Hubble before its refurbishment, we have recently discovered ~500 globulars with the refurbished telescope. Each of bluish pointlike sources is a likely globular.