... The most compact cluster of stars known in our galaxy, the Arches cluster, boasts 100 or so massive, young stars contained within a diameter of one light-year. ... Today's galaxy, M94 (NGC 4736), lies 15 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. ... Beneath the south pole of our Milky Way Galaxy lies a ball of over 100,000 stars. ... Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. ...