“Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent [Serpens] …” begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous catalog of nebulae and ...

See it with your eyes alone in a dark place. In binoculars, it will appear as a faint, fuzzy patch. In a telescope, you will see the individual stars. Like many star clusters of this type, M5 is about ...

Nasa has released an incredibly beautiful close-up shot of Messier 5 (M5), an ancient cluster of over 100,000 stars captured by the Hubble Space Telescope which has been fascinating astronomers for ...