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First light through the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera. The right-hand image is of unnamed dim stars in the open cluster NGC 3532, in the constellation of Carina. An image of the same area of the sky taken by a ground-based observatory is shown on the left for comparison.

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