Globular Cluster

I’ve only shown globular clusters twice before and the last time was two years ago. It’s past time for a fresh look. M5 is one of the largest and finest globulars in the sky. About 165 light years in diameter, it contains at least 100,000 stars and according to some estimates as many as 500,000.

And now, for something completely different. . .

Here are four representative Globular clusters. Globular Clusters are gigantic spherical agglomerations of stars that surround the nucleus of our Milky Way galaxy. Each globular cluster from hundreds of thousands to several million stars, and astronomers believe that the stars is most globular clusters are among the oldest stars in existance, perhaps as much as 10 billion years old.