Some Important Star Stuff

From ThisIsColossal, “If you were to look up in the sky and locate the constellation Pegasus, this entire cluster of stars is located inside of it.” NASA’s photo blog, probably my favorite website, adds some space poetry: “Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15.” This photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and spans about 120 light years, and in the center of the picture, there is a “rare type of black hole”!

Then, over at the Atlantic, we’ve got a number for the total stars in the observable universe: a septillion. “That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.” Only about 5,000 of those are visible from Earth, which means that only about 2,500 are visible from any one fixed position under ideal circumstances, which means it’s Magic School Bus time.

Image via NASA.