M10
globular cluster · in Ophiuchus
16,500 light-years from Earth
M10 and its neighbour in the sky, M12, are only about 1,000 light-years apart in space. Both lie about 16,600 light-years from us.
- 16,500 light-years · about 95 light-years across
- about 12 billion years old
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M10 · NGC 6254
- size
- 95 light-years across