Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  5 Ser  ·  IC 4537  ·  M 5  ·  NGC 5904  ·  The star 5Ser
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M5, Kurt Zeppetello
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M5 is a large Globular Cluster located some 25,000 light-years from Earth and contains at least 100,000 stars. It is 165 light-years across and about 13 billion years old making almost as old as the universe. This represents the 24th Messier object on my quest of all 110 Messier objects with the ED80. Note the very bright star near M5 is 5-Ser.

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M5, Kurt Zeppetello

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