Hint of planet-sized drifters bewilders Hubble scientists (ground-based view)
This is a ground-based view of the globular cluster M22 made from CCD images taken in June 1995 at the Burrell Schmidt telescope of the Warner and Swasey Observatory of the Case Western Reserve University, located on Kitt Peak in Southwestern Arizona, USA.
Credit:N.A.Sharp, REU program/AURA/NOAO/NSF
About the Image
| Id: | heic0107c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 27 June 2001, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0107 |
| Size: | 1024 x 768 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Messier 22, NGC 6656 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular |
| Distance: | 10000 light years |
| Constellation: | Sagittarius |
| Category: | Star Clusters |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 18 36 23.94 |
| Position (Dec): | -23° 54' 11.79" |
| Field of view: | 34.68 x 26.01 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 1.9° left of vertical |
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