The Hubble Space Telescope has actually caught a spectacular view of a remote star cluster, one filled with stars that shimmer in red, white and blue, revealed just in time for the Fourth of July U.S. vacation. The image, which NASA and the European Space Agency launched July 2, reveals the open star cluster NGC 330, a group of stars located about 180,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way, in the constellation Tucana, the Toucan. “Because star clusters form from a single primitive cloud of gas and dust, all the stars they contain are roughly the exact same age,” NASA and ESA authorities composed in an image description. “This makes them beneficial natural labs for astronomers to learn how stars evolve and form.”Related: The Most Amazing Hubble Space Telescope DiscoveriesThis Hubble Space Telescope image shows the complete view of the dazzling open star cluster NGC 330 in the Small Magellanic Cloud based on archived observations from 2018. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone)Astronomers used archived observations from Hubbles Wide Field Camera 3 in 2018 to produce this image to support two various research studies targeted at understanding how star clusters evolve and how large stars can grow before they explode as supernovas.”The most sensational things in this image is actually the really small star cluster in the lower left corner of the image, surrounded by a nebula of ionised hydrogen (red) and dust (blue),” ESA authorities said in a separate image description. ” Called Galfor 1, the cluster was discovered in 2018 in Hubbles archival information, which was utilized to develop this most current image from Hubble.”Scientists studying Galfor 1 will have to wait till NASAs new James Webb Space Telescope (while will launch later on this year) can observe it to determine its surrounding nebula has a bow shock function, ESA added.The criss-cross patterns of the fantastic stars here are actually an artifact of Hubble itself. Theyre called diffraction spikes and form when starlight reflects off the 4 vanes supporting Hubbles secondary mirror, ESA authorities said.While Hubbles view of NGC 330 might include some sparkle to those commemorating the Fourth of July vacation, American astronauts in area have no such luck. Theyll be working through the vacation weekend to prepare a checking out SpaceX Dragon cargo ship for its return to Earth on Tuesday (July 6). The Hubble Space Telescope was released in 1990 and recorded sensational images of deep space for over 30 years. The renowned observatory is currently offline due to a computer system glitch, with NASA working to trigger a backup computer in the hopes of restoring Hubble to great health.Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Instagram.