Photo of HVGC-1 Star Cluster (IMAGE)

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Photo of HVGC-1 Star Cluster

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The runaway star cluster HVGC-1 (circled) in a photo from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The cluster is zooming toward us at a speed of more than two million miles per hour.

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