Hubble’s view of a few thousand of the Abell 1689 galaxy cluster

Hubble’s view of a few thousand of the Abell 1689 galaxy cluster

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail. Hubble spied 10,000 or so of the estimated 160,000 globular star groupings thought to reside in the huge galaxy cluster Abell 1689, which lies about 2.25 billion light-years away from Earth. For comparison, our own […]