M22
globular cluster · in Sagittarius
10,760 light-years from Earth
Probably the first globular cluster ever found, in 1665, and one of the brightest in our sky. Radio telescopes found two black holes inside it in 2012, and it hides a small planetary nebula.
- 10,800 light-years · about 100 light-years across
- about 470,000 times the Sun's mass in all
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M22 · NGC 6656
- size
- 100 light-years across
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