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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity 47 Tucanae, Very Large Telescope image. This globular star cluster lies 15,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Tucana. Globular clusters are spherical groups of very old stars, about 12 billion years old, that are tightly bound by gravity and orbit a dense central core. This is one of the brightest clusters in the sky.

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