The Conjuring Universe is a pretty strange one in terms of consistency. For each series high, you get an equally passionate low, and 2018’s The Nun was one of those lows. There are a few different reasons why this is, but perhaps its biggest sin is that it was just dull. Mostly reliant on jump scares to keep viewers invested, it was certainly a movie that came out, and that’s all one could really say about it.

You can call its sequel, The Nun II, many things, but dull won’t be one of them. The Michael Chaves-directed sequel is a messy but entertaining one that finally seems to justify this sub-franchise’s existence.

In a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, hundreds of thousands of stars huddle together like a school of fish.

Like the ocean, space is murky. Taking this image wasn’t easy. But astronomers were motivated. Densely-packed stars create globular clusters, and the Milky Way is home to 150 or so known globular clusters. Most of the best-studied ones are found in the galaxy’s halo. But some, like the cluster that glitters in the new image published by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA on Thursday, are nestled deep within the galaxy’s bulge.

NASA used a more terrestrial analogy to describe the dilemma. “For astronomers, space can be so cluttered that sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees,” space agency officials wrote.