text: Planets are cool, nebula are fine, distant galaxies can be fun to track down and squint at for hours, but for my money there is nothing in the night sky like a globular cluster. These little islands of stars are nearly galaxies in their own right. Made up of thousands if not millions of stars and orbiting the core of the Milky Way, a globular cluster is a tightly compacted ball of strangely ancient stars that swarm around our galaxy like bees around a hive. From our vantage point here on Earth, we have discovered around 150 of these objects. There are probably more that are obscured by the core of the Milky Way, but there are plenty in plain sight to wonder at.