"The thing's hollow -- it goes on forever -- and -- oh my God! -- it's full of stars!"

An infrared image of the globular cluster NGC6723 snapped by ESO's VISTA #telescope in #Chile

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2333a/

#astronomy #astrodon #space #stars

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nostr:npub1tpj2xvh0cm7gsxlg6ry8tf7ca096k272rf7mzhjj9sea0ef500csf9fmcs nostr:npub1rlsas8l0zrcqwnhqjjhqcqyxss67cntmdaupf07w976fnrv54vzstq7sp6 what us the interstellar distance in such a cluster. Seems it would be much shorter distances than our nearest neighbors, perhaps not though, maybe it’s all about density