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AI overview
Messier 92 is a collection of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity, located in the constellation Hercules and visible through telescopes from Earth. It is one of the brightest examples of this type of stellar grouping, making it valuable for astronomers studying the formation and evolution of stars.
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Key facts
- Class
- IV
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Right ascension
- 17 17 07.39
- Declination
- +43 ° 08 ′ 09.4 ″
- Distance
- 26.7 × 10 ^ ly (8.2 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 14' arc minutes
- Mass
- 2.0 × 10 M ☉
- Radius
- 54 ly
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –2.32 dex
- Other designations
- M92, NGC 6341, GCl 59
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- globular cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 0.008
- Radius
- 43
- Mass
- 200000
- Image
- Messier92 - SDSS DR14 (panorama).jpg
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- metallicity
- -2.35
- radial velocity
- -116.5
- declination
- 43.135944
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2557
- right ascension
- 259.280792
- epoch
- J2000.0
- apparent magnitude
- 4.36
- spectral class
- IV
- Commons category
- Messier 92
- Commons gallery
- Messier 92
- discoverer or inventor
- Johann Elert Bode
- time of discovery or invention
- 1777-12-27
- absolute magnitude
- -8.2
- declination component of proper motion
- -2.12
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -6.61
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Encyclopedic overview
Messier 92 (also known as M92, M 92, or NGC 6341) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Hercules.
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Messier 92” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.