M14

globular cluster · in Ophiuchus

29,800 light-years from Earth

A nova flared in M14 in 1938, but nobody noticed until 1964. Amelia Wehlau found it on old photographic plates taken by Helen Sawyer Hogg.

• 29,800 light-years · about 95 light-years across
• about 600,000 times the Sun's mass

kind

nebula · star cluster

catalogue

M14 · NGC 6402

size

95 light-years across