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                          Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752   
            Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco, Aygen Erkaslan   
      
      Explanation: Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern   
      constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster NGC 6752 roams the halo   
      of our Milky Way galaxy. Over 10 billion years old, NGC 6752 follows   
      clusters Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae, and Messier 22 as the fourth   
      brightest globular in planet Earth's night sky. It holds over 100   
      thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter.   
      Telescopic explorations of NGC 6752 have found that a remarkable   
      fraction of the stars near the cluster's core, are multiple star   
      systems. They also reveal the presence of blue straggle stars, stars   
      which appear to be too young and massive to exist in a cluster whose   
      stars are all expected to be at least twice as old as the Sun. The blue   
      stragglers are thought to be formed by star mergers and collisions in   
      the dense stellar environment at the cluster's core. This sharp color   
      composite also features the cluster's ancient red giant stars in   
      yellowish hues. (Note: The bright, spiky blue star about 8 o'clock from   
      the cluster center is a foreground star along the line-of-sight to NGC   
      6752)   
      
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