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Messier 9 is a dense, spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity, located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It's one of the closest globular clusters to our galaxy's center, making it valuable for astronomers studying the structure and history of the Milky Way.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- globular cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance from Earth
- 25800
- Radius
- 45
- Image
- Messier 9 Hubble WikiSky wfpc2 patched.jpg
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- Commons category
- Messier 9
- time of discovery or invention
- 1764-05-28
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2567
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles Messier
- Commons gallery
- Messier 9
- apparent magnitude
- 6.676
- radial velocity
- 224.0
- absolute magnitude
- -7.95
- metallicity
- -1.65
- spectral class
- VIII
- right ascension
- 259.799083
- declination
- -18.516250
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.57
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.70
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