M15 is a Globular Cluster in Pegasus, size 12' and magnitude 6.
It has 112 variable stars and 9 pulsars and hundreds of thousands of other stars and even a planetary nebula (Pease1) and maybe a black hole too! The core has collapsed.
Distance is some 33.600 light years.

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