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.

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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.

constellation Capricornus containsDeepSkyObject Messier 30
subject surface form: Capricornus
constellation Capricornus containsGlobularCluster Messier 30
subject surface form: Capricornus