Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  M 107  ·  NGC 6171
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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER  - MESSIER 107, Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER  - MESSIER 107
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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER - MESSIER 107

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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER  - MESSIER 107, Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER  - MESSIER 107 


Discovered in 1782 by Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and colleague of Charles Messier, M107 was the last Messier object to be found, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, it lies close to the galactic plane at a distance of 20,000 light-years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 6171 in the New General Catalog.

The globular cluster apparently presents more obscured regions, unusual for such astronomical objects, it is densely concentrated in a volume that is only about 20x the distance between our Sun and its closest stellar neighbor.

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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER  - MESSIER 107, Fernando Oliveira de Menezes

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