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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
NASA ^ | 26 Sep, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Beckmann, Julian Zoller, Lukas Eisert, Wolfgang Hummel

Posted on 09/26/2024 12:54:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster's hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core, upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. The deep, wide-field image also reveals distant background galaxies including NGC 6207 at the upper left, and faint, foreground Milky Way dust clouds known to some as integrated flux nebulae.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 09/26/2024 12:54:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/26/2024 12:54:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 09/26/2024 12:55:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Wow - that was unexpected


4 posted on 09/26/2024 1:09:46 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: MtnClimber

I love these arguments


5 posted on 09/26/2024 1:19:50 PM PDT by frogjerk
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That's a great shot of M13. But it looks like the core is blown out or simply the resolution is so good it appears to overpower the core.

M13 has a chain of stars at the central area which resembles an X. This is my shot of M13 which clearly depict an X at the central core area.


6 posted on 09/26/2024 1:23:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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An no, that is not spilled milk on my floor.


7 posted on 09/26/2024 1:23:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I meant I love these argumentspostings...sorry for my Biden moment
8 posted on 09/26/2024 1:25:14 PM PDT by frogjerk
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OK, no prob!


9 posted on 09/26/2024 1:27:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Harris Walz: The Great Globular Cluster


10 posted on 09/26/2024 1:55:22 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: dragnet2

NICE!👍


11 posted on 09/26/2024 1:57:48 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

And look at that pretty little triple at 7 O’Clock and about 2/3 of the way out.

Don’t know if it’s really a triple or a double with an extra star in the field of view.


12 posted on 09/26/2024 3:35:25 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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"Damn these globular clusters! They hurt and they're ruining my love life."

Sorbo

"Iolaus, go find me a doctor and keep it on the down low."

13 posted on 09/26/2024 7:11:17 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Space lord mother plucker)
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