Star Cluster M15 Size:14" x 14" (36 cm x 36 cm) before emptying into the Bering

before emptying into the Bering Sea

observation taken 2002 by G

taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007

The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood

Spattered across both sections is a starfield

Star Cluster M15 Size:14" x 14" (36 cm x 36 cm) before emptying into the BeringStars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. This ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center. M15, one of about 170 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily visible with only binoculars, having at its center one of the densest concentrations of stars known, and containing a high abundance of variable stars and pulsars. Released only