Tag: Globular Star Cluster

Inner Planets after sunset, the Pretty Moon Slips Over Evening Spica, and the Summer Milky Way Hosts Peak Ceres!

July 7, 2024

This image from the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This great ball of ancient stars is one of the closest of such stellar systems to the Earth and appears in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion) close to…
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A Post-Midnight Moon and Pre-dawn Planets, Brilliant Venus Heads Home, Mars Flees the Bees, and Glancing at Globulars!

June 4, 2023

This image of Messier 13 in Hercules, the father of all globular star clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere, was captured by Martin Pugh. Hundreds of thousands of stars, 25,000 light-years away from the sun, are arranged in a sphere by their mutual gravitational attraction. M13 is visible as a faint fuzzy patch to the…
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