Messier 30
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Messier 30 is a dense globular star cluster located in the constellation Capricornus, composed of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars bound tightly by gravity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Messier 30 canonical | 2 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Messier object
ⓘ
deep-sky object ⓘ globular star cluster ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | −7.45 ⓘ |
| age | about 12.9 billion years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
M30
ⓘ
NGC 7099 ⓘ |
| angularSize | 12 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 7.2 ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | August ⓘ |
| binding | gravitationally bound star cluster ⓘ |
| catalog |
Messier catalogue
ⓘ
New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| contains |
RR Lyrae variable stars
ⓘ
surface form:
RR Lyrae variables
blue straggler stars ⓘ hundreds of thousands of stars ⓘ variable stars ⓘ |
| coreCollapseStatus | core-collapsed ⓘ |
| coreConcentration | high ⓘ |
| coreRadius | about 0.05 arcminutes ⓘ |
| declination | −23° 10′ 47″ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Charles Messier ⓘ |
| discovererRole | French astronomer ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1764 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 27,000 light-years
ⓘ
about 8.3 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| dominantStellarType | old, low-metallicity stars ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | −27.3 degrees ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 27.2 degrees ⓘ |
| halfLightRadius | about 1.0 arcminutes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Capricornus ⓘ |
| mass | about 1.6×10^5 solar masses ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Milky Way stellar halo
ⓘ
surface form:
Milky Way halo
|
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| metallicityFeH | about −2.3 ⓘ |
| observedBy | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| observedIn |
infrared wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| OosterhoffType | II ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | about −182 km/s ⓘ |
| reddeningEBV | about 0.03 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 21h 40m 22s ⓘ |
| skyLocation | southern sky ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | Population II ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | high ⓘ |
| tidalRadius | about 18 arcminutes ⓘ |
| visibility | best seen from southern and equatorial latitudes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Messier 30 Description of subject: Messier 30 is a dense globular star cluster located in the constellation Capricornus, composed of hundreds of thousands of ancient stars bound tightly by gravity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Capricornus
subject surface form:
Capricornus