City of Stars - 47 Tucanae (Ground-Based Image)
The picture at left, taken by a terrestrial telescope, shows most of the cluster, a tightly packed group of middle-aged stars held together by mutual gravitational attraction. The box near the center represents a Hubble Space Telescope segment, which shows approximately 35, 000 stars.
Credit:David Malin (Anglo-Australian Observatory).
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | 47 Tucanae, NGC 104 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular |
| Distance: | 15000 light years |
| Constellation: | Tucana |
| Category: | Star Clusters |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 0 23 50.26 |
| Position (Dec): | -72° 6' 12.81" |
| Field of view: | 47.11 x 36.69 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 0.4° left of vertical |
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