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Globular cluster M14 in Ophiuchus

author: Jim Misti/Novapix

reference: a-agb64-02002

Image Size 300 DPI: 31 * 21 cm

M14 is a somewhat looser globular cluster than many, with a very small ellipticity (deviation from being exactly circular on the sky). Appearing in the constellation Ophiuchus, it is about 29000 light-years away and about 72 light-years across.

Keywords for this photo:

2005 - ASTRONOMY - GLOBULAR CLUSTER - M14 - NGC 6402 - OPHIUCHUS - STAR - STAR CLUSTER -