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Messier 13, or M13 (also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, the Hercules Globular Cluster, or the Great Hercules Cluster), is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.
When Charles Messier added M13 to his catalog in 1764, he was convinced that the nebulous object did not contain any stars. Because they are so densely packed together, the cluster’s individual stars were not resolved until 1779.
M13 is a globular star cluster, a huge globe-shaped stellar city teeming with hundreds of thousands of stars. Globular clusters orbit the Milky Way Galaxy outside the galactic disk at tens of ...
M13 is one of just a few globular clusters that doesn’t require a telescope to be able to see. Under dark spring skies well away from city light pollution, the cluster appears to the naked eye as a faint fuzzy star lying between two bright stars in the “keystone” of Hercules.
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M13 was first discovered by the English astronomer Edmond Halley in 1714 and later cataloged by Charles Messier in 1764. Situated approximately 25,000 light-years away from Earth, M13 is visible to the naked eye under favorable conditions and can be strikingly viewed with modest amateur equipment.