M107
globular cluster · in Ophiuchus
18,400 light-years from Earth
The last Messier object to be found. Pierre Méchain saw it in April 1782, but it joined the list only in 1947, when Helen Sawyer Hogg added it.
- 18,400 light-years · about 70 light-years across
- about 12 billion years old
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M107 · NGC 6171
- size
- 70 light-years across
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