M12
globular cluster · in Ophiuchus
16,700 light-years from Earth
The Milky Way's pull has stripped M12 of about a million of its lightest stars, about four times as many stars as it still has.
- 16,700 light-years · about 80 light-years across
- may fall apart in about 4.5 billion years
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M12 · NGC 6218
- size
- 80 light-years across