Globular Cluster Messier 9: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

Globular Cluster Messier 9: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

This image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 shows a wide-field view of globular cluster Messier 9 and its surroundings, imaged by a ground-based telescope. The dark patches are clouds of interstellar dust. Immediately to the right of Messier 9 is the dark cloud Barnard 64.

Distance: 25,000 light years

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release date: March 16, 2012

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