M2
globular cluster · in Aquarius
38,000 light-years from Earth
One of the more massive globulars, about 620,000 times the Sun's mass. Its stretched orbit swings from about 2,900 light-years from the Galactic centre out to 61,000 light-years.
- 38,000 light-years · about 175 light-years across
- 10 known pulsars, all in binary systems
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M2 · NGC 7089
- size
- 175 light-years across