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M79 Snow Globe Holiday Greeting

December 12, 2017 · NASA

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This special holiday snow globe greeting is a visualization of a rotating star cluster that provides three-dimensional perspective of globular cluster Messier 79 (M79). The simulated star cluster is modeled to reflect the number, color, and distribution of stars in a Hubble Space Telescope view of M79, but not its exact structure.