Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. G1 contains over 300,000 stars and is almost as old as the entire universe . In fact, observations of this globular cluster show stars as old as the oldest of the roughly 250 known globular clusters in our own Milky Way Galaxy . This image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in July of 1994. It shows, for the first time, the same fine detail in a distant globular cluster as can be discerned from a ground-based telescope of a globular cluster in our own Galaxy .
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