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AI overview
Messier 93 is an open cluster, which is a group of stars held together by gravity that formed around the same time from the same cloud of gas and dust. Astronomers study open clusters like this one to better understand how stars form and evolve over time.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 44 30.0
- Declination
- −23 ° 51 ′ 24 ″
- Distance
- 3.38 kly (1.037 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 10′
- Mass
- 723 M ☉
- Radius
- 10 ly
- Estimated age
- 387.3 Myr
- Other designations
- NGC 2447, Cr 160, OCl 649.0
- Constellation
- Puppis
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Distance from Earth
- 1037
- Radius
- 10
- Image
- Messier object 093.jpg
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- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 1324
- Commons category
- Messier 93
- Commons gallery
- Messier 93
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles Messier
- time of discovery or invention
- 1781-03-20
- apparent magnitude
- 6.2
- spectral class
- I
- radial velocity
- 22.37
- right ascension
- 116.1250
- declination
- -23.8567
- epoch
- J2000.0
- parallax
- 0.9603
- metallicity
- -0.05
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.568
- declination component of proper motion
- 5.043
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Encyclopedic overview
Messier 93 or M93, also known as NGC 2447 or the Critter Cluster, is an open cluster in the modestly southern constellation Puppis, the imagined poop deck of the legendary Argo.
Observational history and appearance
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Messier 93” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.