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| Keywords: M3 mono.jpg Messier Objects M3<br> taken by rbruels <i>From NASA's http //antwrp gsfc nasa gov/apod/ APOD site </i> This huge ball of stars predates our Sun Long before mankind evolved before dinosaurs roamed and even before our Earth existed ancient globs of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy Of the 250 or so globular clusters that survive today M3 is one of the largest and brightest easily visible in the Northern hemisphere with binoculars M3 contains about half a million stars most of which are old and red The existence of young blue stars in M3 once posed a mystery but these blue stragglers are now thought to form via stellar interactions <i>Ryan's Summary</i> I took this image with the 24 telescope at the University of Colorado's http //lyra colorado edu Sommers-Bausch Observatory It was taken on an f/3 4 CCD imaging system on a particularly nice night for Boulder note to meta-editors this image did NOT come from NASA as previously stated See above from en Wiki pressumed PD PD-USGov Check categories 2008 November 19 pl wikipedia Messier_3 ca wikipedia Catàleg_Messier ca wikipedia Messier_3 Messier objects Messier 3 Astronomy Picture of the Day | ||||
