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                                 2025 September 5   
      
                         47 Tucanae: Globular Star Cluster   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Taylor   
      
      Explanation: Also known as NGC 104, 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the   
      southern sky. Not a star but a dense cluster of stars, it roams the   
      halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with some 200 other globular star   
      clusters. The second brightest globular cluster (after Omega Centauri)   
      as seen from planet Earth, 47 Tuc lies about 13,000 light-years away.   
      It can be spotted with the naked eye close on the sky to the Small   
      Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of the Toucan. The dense cluster   
      is made up of hundreds of thousands of stars in a volume only about 120   
      light-years across. Red giant stars on the outskirts of the cluster are   
      easy to pick out as yellowish stars in this sharp telescopic portrait.   
      Tightly packed globular star cluster 47 Tuc is also home to a star with   
      the closest known orbit around a black hole.   
      
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