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Messier 12 is a dense, spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars located in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 15,000 light-years away from Earth. It's one of the most famous globular clusters catalogued by astronomers and serves as an important object for studying the age and composition of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- globular cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.005
- Radius
- 38
- Image
- M12 Hubble.jpg
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- metallicity
- -1.15
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.29
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2464
- Commons category
- Messier 12
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles Messier
- time of discovery or invention
- 1764-05-30
- Commons gallery
- Messier 12
- apparent magnitude
- 6.653
- radial velocity
- -43.5
- absolute magnitude
- -7.31
- spectral class
- IX
- right ascension
- 251.809083
- declination
- -1.948528
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.61
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