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This shows how the Arches star cluster appears from deep inside the hub of our
Milky Way Galaxy. Although hidden from our direct view, the massive cluster lies 25,000
light-years away and is the densest known gathering of young stars in our galaxy.
The illustration is based on infrared observations with Hubble and with ground-based
telescopes, which pierced our galaxy's dusty core and snapped images of the luminous
cluster of about 2,000 stars.
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