来源： Space.com
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught one of these clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Because its stars are relatively nearby and its chemical makeup differs slightly from that of the Milky Way, the LMC provides astronomers with unique opportunities to compare how stars and galaxies evolve in different environments.