Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 43 31.5
- Declination
- −73 ° 26 ′ 26 ″
- Distance
- 195000 ly (60000 pc)
- Apparent dimensions v
- 0.95 ′ × 0.95 ′
- Mass
- 3.7 × 10 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 69 Myr
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 241 is an open cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered on April 11, 1834, by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 241” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.