Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205
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Great Hercules from IAC, Pepe Chambó
Great Hercules from IAC
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The Hercules Great Cluster, is the brightest globular cluster on the sky, at limit of visibility at naked eye. It contains more than 500.000 stars concentrated in "only" 145 light-years wide in our galaxy outskirts (to 25.000 light-years distant). Photographically it is looks yellow because the great amount of giant-red stars (golden coloured) that it contains.

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Great Hercules from IAC, Pepe Chambó

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