Time Travel: Globular Cluster  

 


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GLOBULAR CLUSTER
25,000 light years
 

M13 / NGC6205

Constellation Hercules

Globular Clusters are strange objects. They are old, some billion years older than our sun, almost as old as the milky way itself, and even more peculiar is their – of course extremely slow by human standards – movenent: Instead of circling the galactic center like all other stars do, they penetrate the galactic plain, decrease in speed on the other side, and return for another circuit, as if they were fixed to a gigantic pendulum.


Who knows, if the densely packed space within a Globular Cluster supports earthlike planets? If so, an observer on the surface would never know a night like ours, because thousands of stars brighter than Venus would fill it with light.


 
 
 
30 August 2008, Vienna, focal length 1320 mm, f/6.6, exposure time 4x 50 seconds