Disambiguation evidence for globular star cluster M13 via surface form

"M13"


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Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "M13".

Predicate Object
MessierNumber 13
NGCNumber 6205
ShapleySawyerConcentrationClass V
age about 11.5 billion years
alsoKnownAs Great Hercules Cluster
alsoKnownAs M 13
alsoKnownAs globular star cluster M13
surface form: Messier 13
alsoKnownAs NGC 6205
angularSize about 20 arcminutes
apparentMagnitudeV 5.8
bestSeenFromLatitude mid-northern latitudes
bestSeenIn spring
bestSeenIn summer
catalogueInclusionYear 1764
cataloguedBy Charles Messier
contains RR Lyrae variable stars
contains blue straggler stars
contains horizontal branch stars
contains millisecond pulsars
contains multiple stellar populations
contains red giant stars
coreRadius about 1.7 parsecs
declination +36° 28′
diameter about 145 light-years
discoveredBy Edmund Halley
surface form: Edmond Halley
discoveryYear 1714
distanceFromEarth about 22,000 light-years
distanceFromEarth about 6.8 kiloparsecs
galacticLatitude about +40°
galacticLongitude about 59°
halfLightRadius about 3.5 parsecs
instanceOf Messier object
instanceOf NGC object
instanceOf deep-sky object
instanceOf globular star cluster
isNakedEyeObject yes, under dark skies
isPopularFor amateur astronomy observations
isPopularFor astrophotography
isVisibleFrom Northern Hemisphere
locatedIn Milky Way stellar halo
surface form: Galactic halo
locatedIn Milky Way
locatedInConstellation Hercules
mass about 600,000 solar masses
metallicity [Fe/H] ≈ −1.5
notableEvent Arecibo message beamed toward M13 in 1974
numberOfStars on the order of 300,000
numberOfStars several hundred thousand
observedBy Arecibo Observatory
observedBy Hubble Space Telescope
rightAscension 16h 41m