M80
globular cluster · in Scorpius
33,500 light-years from Earth
One of the densest globulars. Hubble found more than twice as many blue stragglers there as in other clusters it surveyed: stars that look younger than the rest. A nova, T Scorpii, flared in it in 1860.
- 33,500 light-years · about 100 light-years across
- 7 known pulsars, all in binary systems
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M80 · NGC 6093
- size
- 100 light-years across