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Messier 5 is a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, located about 24,500 light-years from Earth. It's one of the brightest globular clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere and helps astronomers understand the structure and age of our galaxy.
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- Distance from Earth
- 0.008
- Radius
- 82.5
- Image
- Messier 5 - HST.jpg
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- declination
- 2.081028
- time of discovery or invention
- 1702-05-05
- Commons category
- Messier 5
- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2286
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- Messier 5
- metallicity
- -1.45
- right ascension
- 229.638417
- apparent magnitude
- 5.867
- radial velocity
- 51.8
- absolute magnitude
- -8.76
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 5.11
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.29
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Messier 5 or M5 (also designated NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702.
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