Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5272
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M3, Joshua Judkins
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M3

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M3

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Really happy with my best image ever of a globular cluster- ancient collections of stars that orbit the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This image is a stack of 8, 30 second exposures for a total composite of 4 minutes of Messier 3, taken tonight in Lynn. About 34 million light years away from Earth, this globular cluster is about 8 billion years old and contains an estimated 500,000 stars.

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M3, Joshua Judkins