M13 – the Hercules Globular Cluster. Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound clusters of tens of thousands to millions of stars. M13 is home to over 100,000 stars.
Globular clusters like M13 also contain the most ancient stars in our Milky Way.
The Hercules Globular Cluster is about 25,000 light-years from Earth. That’s far, but…
In the left hand corner of the picture is galaxy NGC 6207. It’s about 30 million light-years from Earth. That’s far, but…
Just above and slightly to the left of M13 is galaxy IC 4617. It sits about 553 million light-years away.
Shot with my Seestar S50. Processed in Pixinsight.
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😗💀 what can i even say, i went silent for a bit looking at this image.
And 553 million light years is practically in our backyard, cosmically speaking.
“My God, it’s full of stars!”
The universe never ceases to amaze. likely any dark spot in this you “zoomed” into would revel layers and layers of more depth. The first ever Hubble Deep Field shot still blows my mind all these years later.
The light there, inside the cluster probably is more than blinding or burning. Still an amazing picture. Even so far to ever go there