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Hubble Photo of Globular Cluster NGC 6441, One of the Most Massive in the Milky Way

NGC 6441 is one of the most luminous and massive globular clusters in the Milky Way. It also hosts fours pulsars. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto

The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered another outstanding image. This one is of NGC 6441, a massive globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It’s one of the most massive ones in the Milky Way, and the stars in it have a combined mass of 1.6 million solar masses.

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