M30

globular cluster · in Capricornus

27,600 light-years from Earth

Its stars have crowded into a tiny collapsed core. At about 13 billion years, it is among the oldest globulars measured.

• 27,600 light-years · about 95 light-years across
• coming toward us at about 185 km/s

kind

nebula · star cluster

catalogue

M30 · NGC 7099

size

95 light-years across