esahubble_heic1205b March 16th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
This image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 shows a wide-field view of globular cluster Messier 9 and its surroundings, imaged by a ground-based telescope. The dark patches are clouds of interstellar dust. Immediately to the right of Messier 9 is the dark cloud Barnard 64.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1205b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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