Showing posts with label m13. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Silent Sunday


















This image captures a glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules and can even be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.