NASA's Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars

Today marks a cosmic celebration: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster containing more than five hundred thousand stars. Released in honor of the United States' two hundred fiftieth anniversary, the image is helping scientists piece together the Milky Way's history. The cluster harbors rare stars and may have originated from a cosmic merger billions of years ago, offering clues to how our galaxy evolved.

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