Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  4 Ser
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Palomar 5  Globular Cluster, GJL
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Palomar 5 Globular Cluster

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Palomar 5 Globular Cluster

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Paloma 5 is one of the smallest known globular clusters. It crosses our Milky Way every few hundred million years and loses many of its stars to it. The next traversal will occur in about 110 million years. Probably nothing will be left of Palomar 5 then.

Age: about 10 billion years

Distance: 75 700 light years

Size class: 11,75

Total mass: 5000 * Sun

Total diameter: 156 light years

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Palomar 5  Globular Cluster, GJL