M 5 – Ser
Among the most spectacular deep sky objects there are globular clusters. These very crowded families of stars (reaching sometime the number of one million!) live in the so called galactic halo: a spherical region...
Category: globular cluster
NGC 2419, the “Intergalactic Wanderer”
NGC 2419 (more data) is a globular cluster located in the pale Lynx constellation. It was discovered by W. Herschel in 1788 and it is quite far from the center of our Milky Way,...
C/2009 P1 (Garradd) and M 15
This image shows comet Garradd while apparently meeting the globular cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus, on 2 Aug. 2011. A mosaic with two images was done, in order to cover both the objects, still...
M 13 – Her
M13 (more data), sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules. It is one of th...
Destination: Comet Garradd
After quite a long absence, an interesting comet was coming again, its name being C/2009 P1 (Garradd). Discovered by the australian astronomer Gordon J. Garradd on 13 aug 2009, this comet will be interestingly...
