“When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.” -Jim Fiebig
But sometimes, it's the wonders of the Universe that peek out at us from behind the intervening gas and dust that would block the light from them otherwise.
![Image credit: © Copyright 1970 — 2014 by Fred Espenak, via http://astropixels.com/globularclusters/M9-01.html.](/files/startswithabang/files/2014/07/M9-01w-600x432.jpg)
This week's deep-sky object for Messier Monday -- Messier 9 -- has the distinction of being one of the closest globulars to the galactic center, yet its stars are incredibly old and metal-poor. Oh, and it's been spectacularly imaged by Hubble, revealing far more stars than were anticipated to be there!
![Image credit: NASA & ESA, via http://spacetelescope.org/images/heic1205a/.](/files/startswithabang/files/2014/07/Globular_cluster_Messier_9_captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope.tif-1-600x600.jpg)
Go read the whole remarkable story of this object and our discovery of its wonders!
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