Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5272
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M3, Nigel
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M3 has an apparent magnitude of 6.2 and a diameter of 18 arcminutes. It is about 33,000 lightyears distant and is 8 billion years old. Most of its ~500,000 stars are old and red although it also has a small number of younger blue main-sequence stars.

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M3, Nigel