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Messier 30 is a spherical collection of thousands of old stars located in the constellation Capricornus, held together by gravity. It is one of the notable deep-sky objects cataloged by astronomers and serves as an example of the ancient star clusters that orbit our galaxy.
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Key facts
- Class
- V
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Right ascension
- 21 40 22.12
- Declination
- –23 ° 10 ′ 47.5 ″
- Distance
- 27.14 ± 0.65 kly (8.3 ± 0.20 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 12'.0
- Mass
- 1.6 × 10 M ☉
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –2.27 dex
- Estimated age
- 12.93 Gyr
- Other designations
- M30, NGC 7099, GCl 122
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 0.007
- Radius
- 45
- Image
- Messier 30 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- Commons category
- Messier 30
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 3543
- absolute magnitude
- -7.45
- radial velocity
- -164.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1764-08-03
- Commons gallery
- Messier 30
- apparent magnitude
- 7.501
- metallicity
- -2.33
- spectral class
- IV
- right ascension
- 325.092167
- declination
- -23.179861
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.61
- declination component of proper motion
- -7.28
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