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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2025 December 28   
       The ball of colorful stars is shown where the center is so dense with   
           stars it is hard to identify individual stars. Please see the   
                    explanation for more detailed information.   
      
             NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud   
                          Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA   
      
      Explanation: Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And   
      almost every spot in this jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space   
      Telescope is a star. Now, some stars are more red than our Sun, and   
      some more blue -- but all of them are much farther away. Although it   
      takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun, NGC 1898 is so   
      far away that it takes light about 160,000 years to get here. This huge   
      ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in   
      the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite   
      galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. The featured multi-colored image   
      includes light from the infrared to the ultraviolet and was taken to   
      help determine if the stars of NGC 1898 all formed at the same time or   
      at different times. There are increasing indications that most globular   
      clusters formed stars in stages, and that, in particular, stars from   
      NGC 1898 formed shortly after ancient encounters with the Small   
      Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and our Milky Way Galaxy.   
      
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