"Hubble's Stunning Capture: Glittering Globular Cluster Shines in Sagittarius"

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the globular cluster NGC 6652 within the Milky Way galaxy. Combining data from two of Hubble's instruments, astronomers are using this image to survey globular clusters and analyze their chemical makeup. Globular clusters are tightly gravitationally bound clusters containing thousands to millions of stars. The image reveals the pale blue light of countless stars in the cluster's core, as well as bright foreground stars adorned with diffraction spikes. NGC 6652 is located in the constellation Sagittarius, about 30,000 light-years from Earth and 6,500 light-years from the Galactic center.