Q126020
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open cluster in the constellation Tucana
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 51 12.33
- Declination
- −73 ° 09 ′ 42.1 ″
- Distance
- 200 kly (61 kpc )
- Mass
- 5.8 × 10 M ☉
- Radius
- ~33 ly (10 pc )
- Estimated age
- 63 Myr, 30 ± 10 Myr
- Other designations
- Cl Lindsay 42, ESO 029–19, OGLE-CL SMC 69
- Constellation
- Tucana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC290.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 290
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- OGLE-CL SMC 69
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-04-11
- apparent magnitude
- 11.09
- right ascension
- 12.801375
- declination
- -73.161694
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 290 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Tucana. This cluster was discovered September 5, 1826, by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. It lies some 200,000 light years away from the Sun in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The cluster is an estimated 30–63 million years old and is around 65 light years across.
See also
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