M53
globular cluster · in Coma Berenices
60,500 light-years from Earth
One of the farthest of Messier's globulars, about 60,500 light-years away. Its stars hold only about 1/125 of the Sun's share of iron.
- 60,500 light-years · about 230 light-years across
- the globular NGC 5053 lies 1 degree away
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M53 · NGC 5024
- size
- 230 light-years across