In the vast, starry area known as the Milky Way, globular star clusters are extremely common. Within these clusters, several hundred thousand stars are gravitationally held together in one large group. The stars within the clusters of the Milky Way are estimated to be up to billions of years old. This gives astronomers more information about the age of the Universe. This particular cluster, found in the constellation of Delphinius, is the cluster NGC 6934. It was discovered in 1785 by William Herschel, has a magnitude of 8.83, is 10 billion years old and is 50,000 light years away from our earth.
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