Sunny Priyan
What was once only visible as a ghostly mist in the eyepieces of astronomical instruments has been transformed into a stunning stellar landscape by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NGC 6401 is a globular cluster, a very rich, and generally spherical, collection of stars.
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They orbit the cores of galaxies, with the force of gravity also keeping the stars bound as a group.
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There are approximately 150 globular clusters associated with our Milky Way, of which NGC 6401 is one.
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These objects are very old, containing some of the most ancient stars known.
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There are many mysteries surrounding them, with their origin and role within galaxy evolution not being completely understood.
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