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M30’s Sparkling Stars

The sparkling collection of stars is named Messier 30 (M30) after the French astronomer, Charles Messier, who cataloged M30 and other diffuse objects that might be mistaken for comets in the early telescopes of Messier’s time.

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released Nov.

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