Zoom to 47 Tucanae
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This animation zooms from ground-based optical views around the southern constellation of Tucana, to an ESO/Danish 1.54-m optical image of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, and finally rests on the X-ray image of the cluster's core taken with Chandra.
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(Credit: Ground-based Optical: T.Dickinson; Anglo-Australian Obs. Photo: D.Malin; ESO/Danish 1.54-m: W.Keel et al.; Chandra: NASA/CXC/CfA/J.Grindlay & C.Heinke)