M75
globular cluster · in Sagittarius
67,000 light-years from Earth
A small, very compact globular about 67,000 light-years away, one of the farthest in Messier's list. Harlow Shapley put it in his densest class, I.
- 67,000 light-years · about 130 light-years across
- about 460,000 times the Sun's mass
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M75 · NGC 6864
- size
- 130 light-years across