Star Cluster Messier 15: Wide-field View (ground-based)

Star Cluster Messier 15: Wide-field View (ground-based)

This image, from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the sky around Messier 15, one of the oldest and densest globular clusters known.

This glittering cluster contains over 100,000 stars, as well as something more exotic and mysterious at its core: a rare type of black hole.

Distance: 35,000 light-years

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

Release Date: November 14, 2013

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