NGC 2808
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Key facts
- Class
- I
- Constellation
- Carina
- Right ascension
- 09 12 03.10
- Declination
- –64 ° 51 ′ 48.6 ″
- Distance
- 31.3 kly (9.6 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 13.8 ′
- Mass
- 1.42 × 10 M ☉
- Metallicity
- [ Fe/H ] = –1.14 dex
- Estimated age
- 10.2 Gyr
- Other designations
- GCl 13, Melotte 95
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2808 is a globular cluster in the constellation Carina. The cluster currently belongs to the Milky Way, although it was likely stolen from a dwarf galaxy that collided with the Milky Way. NGC 2808 is one of the Milky Way's most massive clusters, containing more than a million stars. It is estimated to be 12.5 billion years old.
The cluster is being disrupted by the galactic tide, trailing a long tidal tail.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2808” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.