Also known as M13 from Messier's list of objects which are not comets. It is a cloud of hundreds of thousands of stars held together more or less by their own mutual gravity, located around 22,000 light years away from the Solar System.

I took this picture myself years ago, on a very wobbly 5" cassegrain telescope. Craigslist special. :comfy-cool:

Look up a star party near you. There are nerds with very nice telescopes and if you're willing to camp for a few nights you can hover around them and look through that shit. There's a guy at the one I've been going to who drags his 600 pound custom built 24" (aperture!) dobsonian telescope out every year. You need to climb a ladder just to look through the eyepiece, but the naked eye views are absolutely glorious.