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Hubble sees a swarm of ancient star clusters around lenticular galaxy NGC 5308, located just under 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows star clusters encircling a galaxy, like bees buzzing around a hive: lenticular galaxy NGC 5308, just under 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). Members of a galaxy type that lies between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy, lenticular galaxies such as NGC 5308 are disk galaxies that have used up, or lost, the majority of their gas and dust. As a result, they experience very little ongoing star formation and consist mainly of old and aging stars.

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