In today's image, we see NGC 1850, a star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud which is a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. It bears a resemblance to the globular clusters in our galaxy, but is far younger. No clusters like this have ever been noted within our Milky Way galaxy.

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