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@joegarrity.bsky.social

I captured the Hercules Cluster with my EdgeHD 8" SCT at 1422mm (0.7x reducer) from Bortle 3 skies in Hualien, Taiwan. My friend says it looks like Luke just destroyed the Death Star. 😆

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #globularcluster #eastcoastkin #photography

January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM

Astronomy Picture of the Day

@apoddaily.bsky.social

🔭 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

📅 2026-09-25
© Javier O. Cadenas Parra
Src: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

#NASA #APOD #Astronomy #Galaxy #GlobularCluster #DeepSpace #MilkyWay

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2026-09-25: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri. Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

September 25, 2026 at 12:48 PM

Thomas Hanrath

@astrocamp.bsky.social

Messier 53 (M53) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 53 reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around April 10th.

astrocamp.eu/en/messier-5...

#astrophotography #globularcluster #ngc5024 #Melotte117 #M53 #space #clearskies #astronomy

May 31, 2024 at 5:57 PM

Thomas Hanrath

@astrocamp.bsky.social

#IntergalacticWanderer is a #globularcluster in #Lynx, approx. 270,000 ly away. The #cluster is best observed around mid-January.

Detailed: astrocamp.eu/c25

▼ Vixen VC200L | EOS M100 '23

#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature

January 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Ton H

@djaa34.bsky.social

Somewhere inside a globular cluster.
Oil on canvas 70x53cm 2025
#spaceart #landscape #globularcluster #painting #astronomy

January 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Stefan Kellner 🔭

@stefankellner.bsky.social

Located about 33,900 light-years away from Earth, M3 is a glittering collection of over half a million stars, bound together by gravity.
#GlobularCluster #M3 #Astrophotography #backyardastronomy #berlin #Astronomy

June 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM

Thomas Hanrath

@astrocamp.bsky.social

Messier 15 in Pegasus is one of the densest known globular clusters, with a core showing signs of gravitational collapse.…

https://astrocamp.eu/en/messier-15-pegasus-cluster/

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #GlobularCluster

Pegasus Cluster (Messier 15 / NGC 7078), Globular Cluster, Astrophotography

September 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM

GingerAstroNerd

@gingerastro.bsky.social

Some people think that globular clusters are boring but I think they’re quite beautiful. Especially when your telescope can produce pinpoint stars! Here’s my image of the Hercules globular cluster #M13 #globularcluster #stars #deepspaceobject #edgehd8 #astrophotography #space #astronomy #celestron

December 10, 2024 at 11:26 AM

John Williams

@jrawesq.bsky.social

M13
Globular Cluster
Collected May 28-29, 2026
2 hrs 20 min
#Astrophotography #M13 #GlobularCluster #astronomy #deepsky

September 18, 2026 at 12:42 AM

Thomas Hanrath

@astrocamp.bsky.social

New blog article including the session analysis - My astrophoto of the rather rarely photographed globular cluster in the constellation Hercules. Messier 92. Read what went wrong :)

astrocamp.eu/en/astrophot...

#astrophotography #nature #globularcluster #milkyway #astronomy #space #clearskies

June 15, 2024 at 10:28 AM

Shirts Frenzy

@shirtsfrenzy.bsky.social

Hercules Cluster — Several hundred thousand old suns, held in one calm sphere. Hercules Cluster turns a deep-space address into a restrained field of gold.

#Space #Art #SciArt #Cosmic #GlobularCluster #Astronomy

Hercules Cluster

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June 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Celestron

@celestronuniverse.bsky.social

"I have imaged this object [M3] several times, including May 2017 and May 2019. However, the 14-inch telescope I’m using now gives it a whole new depth compared to previous versions."

Captured in 3h24m, Ron Breacher captured this beautiful bright #globularcluster.

January 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM

AstroMink

@astr0mink.bsky.social

#GlobularCluster #M3 from last night. The Origin brought our the outer straw nic.
🔭
#Messier
#astrophotography
#deepskyphotography
#astronomy
#celestron
#CelestronOrigin
#Quadband

Globular cluster Messier 3 Imaged using Celestron Origin (RASA 6 ) with Antlia Quadband light pollution filter. Bortle 5 sky

April 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Astronomy Picture of the Day

@apoddaily.bsky.social

🔭 NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad

📅 2026-07-31
© Alessandro Cipolat Bares
Src: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

#NASA #APOD #Astronomy #Nebula #GlobularCluster #MilkyWay #DeepSpace

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2026-07-31: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad. NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad

July 31, 2026 at 12:49 PM

Ω = 1

@omegaequalsone.bsky.social

Messier 3 (M3) is a globular cluster in Canes Venatici 34,000 light-years from Earth, spanning a diameter of at least 180 light-years with an estimated age of 11.4 billion years.

22 min of #Seestar data. Tweaked in Snapseed. Lamy, NM

#astrophotography #globularcluster #seestarS50

April 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM

EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

Finally found! #Astronomers think the Omega Centauri #globularcluster should be home to some 10,000 stellar-mass #blackholes. But they’d never found any stellar-mass black holes there … until now.

Read more at: buff.ly/AsaC3gG

📸 ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle (MPIA).

Dense cluster of stars in white, red and blue with an inset focusing on one star among many.

July 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM

Oregon Randy

@oregonrandy.bsky.social

I'm going to repeat post this one. The one I posted last week was a rough draft actually. This one's the keeper! #RhoOphiuchi #Stunday #astrophotography #EastCoastKin #📷 #🔭 #nebula #stars #globularcluster #sony
There is an annotated version in the comments to detail what's in the image!

An astrophotography image with many stars throughout. The main feature being a star forming region closest to Earth, Rho Ophiuchi.
It looks something like a pentagonal pendant hung by one blue star at it's top. That star, and the other three below it that form the top of the pentagon are bright blue, and show wispy gas that is energized and glowing from the radiation from those stars. The two base stars appear more red to yellow in color. The brightest is the red supergiant star Antares, which is also a binary system, part of the constellation Scorpio. The other to it's right is something bright also, but not a star. It's a globular cluster of about 100,000 individual stars, about 6,000 light years away. Making it one of the closest to Earth.
Another notable feature is dark gas and dust that runs from the far left center, into the area of the pentagon, blocking background starlight.

June 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Beatrice Heinze Photography

@beatriceheinze.bsky.social

(1/4) "One from the archives"

#M13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or also called the Hercules Globular Cluster.

A beautiful astronomical object composed of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation Hercules.

#Messier13 #globularcluster #astrophotography #bluesky

M13 (Messier 13) Hercules Globular Cluster, astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze.

M13 (Messier 13) Hercules Globular Cluster, astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze. Here, I used the BlurXTerminator tool from Russell Croman to sharpen up the stars and nonstellar of M13.

January 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM

EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

Do you like star clusters? Gwen Forrester in DeKalb County, Tennessee, captured this view of the great #Messier13 #globularcluster in the constellation #Hercules last Friday. Beautiful, thank you, Gwen! 🌌🔭📸
buff.ly/8jQrkor

See more great images, and submit your own recent photos: 
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Dense whitish cluster of thousands of stars in black space, with many more stars around it.

May 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM

EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

Do you know what a #globularcluster is? Globular clusters are spherical collections of hundreds of thousands of #stars orbiting within galaxies. Our #MilkyWay has over 150 globular clusters, home to some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. 🌌✨
buff.ly/kMoBZ3Q

📸 HST/ NASA/ ESA/ APOD.

Sphere of myriad of multicolored, bright stars, dense in the middle and falling off in density at the edges.

August 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM

TwilightMoons Astronomy

@twilightmoonsastro.bsky.social

47 Tucanae, a giant globular cluster deep in southern skies, hidden from most sites in the northern hemisphere. Imaged with a rented telescope from Australia.

www.astrobin.com/sfljjj/

#astronomy #astrophotography #space #southerskies #telescope #cosmos #globularcluster #tucana

47 Tucanae

An astrophotograph by TwilightMoons Astronomy on AstroBin

www.astrobin.com

January 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM

EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

Scott Smith in Palmetto, Florida, captured the globular star cluster #OmegaCentauri in March. Scott wrote: "It is the largest known #globularcluster in the #MilkyWay. Thank you, Scott! 🌌🔭

See more of March’s best deep sky photos, plus watch a video:
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Bright cluster of thousands of stars, dense in the center and much more sparse in the outer region.

April 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

hellohoney

@hellohoney01.bsky.social

"SAGITTARIUS: a teapot-shaped constellation — the Milky Way pours out like steam toward the center of our galaxy. Visible in the summer sky (northern hemisphere).
#sagittarius #milkyway #galacticcenter #ngc6652 #globularcluster #astrophotography #nightsky #stargazing #eastcoastkin"
Credit #NASA