M70
globular cluster · in Sagittarius
30,500 light-years from Earth
Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered beside M70 on 23 July 1995: Thomas Bopp found it while looking at the cluster. Its core has collapsed.
- 30,500 light-years · about 70 light-years across
- 6 known pulsars
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- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M70 · NGC 6681
- size
- 70 light-years across
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