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M-13 - A Massive Stellar Swarm in the Strong Man, Steve Solon and Terry Chatterton

M-13 - A Massive Stellar Swarm in the Strong Man

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M-13 - A Massive Stellar Swarm in the Strong Man, Steve Solon and Terry Chatterton

M-13 - A Massive Stellar Swarm in the Strong Man

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They hover around the disc of the Milky Way, numbering over 150, and swim through the outer halo. Of all the globular clusters in the Northern Hemisphere, M-13 surely stands out as possibly the grandest. With a stellar population of between 500,000 and a million suns, this mammoth system resides in the upper right corner of the 'keystone' asterism that is the body of Hercules.

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M-13 - A Massive Stellar Swarm in the Strong Man, Steve Solon and Terry Chatterton