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Sagittarius Star Cloud
Sign in to saveAlso known as Delle Caustiche, Messier 24, M24, IC 4715, Small Sagittarius Star Cloud
Star cloud in the constellation Sagittarius
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sagittarius Star Cloud is referenced by 366 other articles, and connects out to New General Catalogue, light-year and Messier object.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1764, Carina–Sagittarius Arm and Discoveries by Charles Messier.
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 18 17
- Declination
- −18° 29′
- Distance
- ~10 kly (3070 pc)
- Apparent dimensions v
- 2°x1°
- Radius
- ~300 ly
- Other designations
- Delle Caustiche, IC 4715
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Sternwolke
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Distance from Earth
- 13000
- Image
- M024.jpg
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- right ascension
- 274.200
- declination
- -18.550
- Commons category
- Sagittarius Star Cloud
- catalog code
- IC 4715
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles Messier
- time of discovery or invention
- 1764-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Messier 24
- apparent magnitude
- 4.6
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Encyclopedic overview
The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (also known as Messier 24 and IC 4715) is a star cloud in the constellation of Sagittarius approximately 600 light years wide, which was catalogued by Charles Messier in 1764. It should not be confused with the nearby Large Sagittarius Star Cloud which lies about 10° to the south.
Messier described the cloud as "a large nebulosity in which there are many stars of different magnitudes" and gave its dimensions as being some 1.5° across. Some sources, improperly, identify M24 as the small open cluster NGC 6603. The location of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud is near the Omega Nebula (also known as M17) and open cluster Messier 18, both north of M24.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sagittarius Star Cloud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.