M28
globular cluster · in Sagittarius
17,500 light-years from Earth
In 1987 astronomers found a pulsar in M28 that spins about 330 times a second. It was the first pulsar ever found in a globular cluster.
- 17,500 light-years · about 55 light-years across
- 14 known pulsars
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M28 · NGC 6626
- size
- 55 light-years across