NGC 1872
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ESA/Hubble and NASA
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This spectacular NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 1872, a rich cluster of thousands of stars lying in our small neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This little-studied cluster is located in the constellation of Dorado (the Dolphinfish, a fish unrelated to the dolphin and which often appears on dinner menus under its Hawaiian name mahi-mahi). The Scottish astronomer James Dunlop was probably the first to spot NGC 1872 in 1826 with a small telescope near Sydney in Australia.
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NGC 1872NGC 1872 ist ein junger massereicher Sternhaufen in der Großen Magellanschen Wolke im Sternbild Dorado. Er ähnelt den Kugelsternhaufen unserer Milchstraße, ist allerdings deutlich jünger. .. weiterlesen