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.
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