NASA’s Hubble detects a star-studded cosmic scene0

• Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Globular Clusters, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Star Clusters, Stars
• July 3, 2026

More than 500,000 stars shine red, white and blue in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The image shows Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of