Zoom into Globular Cluster Messier 9 | Hubble

Zoom into Globular Cluster Messier 9 | Hubble

This video zooms in from a wide field image of the night sky into globular cluster Messier 9, ending on Hubble's image. Hubble's detailed image of this star city resolves over 250,000 individual stars.

Distance: 25,000 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger 

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: March 21, 2012

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