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Messier 2 is a dense, spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of old stars that orbits the outer region of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers study it to understand how stars form and evolve in extreme conditions, and it serves as a useful reference point for measuring distances in our galaxy.
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Vinony's link graph records 569 inbound references to مسیه ۲, and connects out to list of stars in Aquarius, New General Catalogue and Messier object.
Vinony files it under Aquarius (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1746 and Gaia-Enceladus.
Vinony links it to 62 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- globular cluster
- Part of
- Milky Way
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Distance from Earth
- 0.012
- Radius
- 88
- Image
- M2 Globular Cluster.jpg
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- spectral class
- II
- Commons category
- Messier 2
- catalog code
- C 2130-010
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- Messier 2
- time of discovery or invention
- 1746-09-11
- discoverer or inventor
- Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
- apparent magnitude
- 6.384
- radial velocity
- -6.7
- absolute magnitude
- -8.97
- metallicity
- -1.66
- right ascension
- 323.362583
- declination
- -0.823250
- different from
- M2
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 6.77
- declination component of proper motion
- -4.54
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