M5, NGC 5904
noirlab_noao-02216 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M5, or NGC5904, a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens, as seen by the KPNO 4-m telescope in 1975. This large cluster is amongst the most massive in orbit around our Galaxy, at about two million times the mass of the Sun. At a distance of about 26000 light-years, M5 is about 13 billion years old.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02216/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- ID
- noao-02216
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M5, NGC 5904
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:14
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-02216/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 229.4636264, 2.036276436
- Reference Dimension
- 2500.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2112.770355, 824.2822723
- Scale
- -0.000201, 0.000199
- Rotation
- 2.197722864
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-02216
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-02216.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2022-09-12T14:56:38.455784
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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