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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

NGC 1466

 

This ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a gathering of stars all held together by gravity that is slowly moving through space on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest galactic neighbors.

It has…this is the amazing part…..a mass equivalent to roughly 140 000 Suns and an age of around 13.1 billion years, making it almost as old as the Universe itself.