NGC 6717 (also known as Palomar 9) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, and is a member of the Palomar Globular Clusters group. Palomar 9 was discovered by William Herschel on August 7, 1784.

Sep 10, 2021 · This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. NGC 6717 is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical collection of …

Sep 6, 2021 · This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717, which lies more than 20 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. NGC 6717 is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical collection of …

NGC 6717 is a Globular Cluster in the Sagittarius constellation. NGC 6717 is situated close to the celestial equator and, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year.

NGC 6717 is located at a distance of 7.1 kpc from the Sun and 2.4 kpc from the Galactic centre, which places it in the bulge of the Milky Way. It has a dense core, which may indicate that it has undergone a core collapse.

Sep 6, 2021 · Globular clusters resemble stellar jewel boxes featuring roughly spherical assemblies of countless closely-packed stars. This example, NGC 6717, was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is located some 20,000 …

Sep 13, 2021 · The team behind the Hubble Space Telescope recently published this image of a celestial body called NGC 6717 that's located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth. It's a globular cluster, or a...

Sep 13, 2021 · This star-studded image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope depicts globular cluster NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Globular...

Discovered by William Herschel on August 7, 1784. William Herschel discovered this cluster and cataloged it as H III.143. He described it as a very faint round nebula and apparently thought it was a cluster with nebulosity. It was first recognized as globular cluster by Per Collinder in 1931.

Sep 6, 2021 · Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a distant globular cluster called NGC 6717. This Hubble image shows NGC 6717, a globular cluster located over 23,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.