Stars Like Sand
NGC 4874 shines brightly at the right of the frame, with a bright star-like core surrounded by a hazy halo. It is a giant elliptical galaxy, about ten times larger than the Milky Way. A few of the galaxies of Coma Galaxy Cluster appear to float like Frisbees around NGC 4874. Amazingly, most of the point-like objects near NGC 4874 in this image are actually clusters of stars belonging to the galaxy. Each of these globular star clusters contains many hundreds of thousands of stars.
(via: Space.com) (image: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
