Star Cluster
The second brightest globular cluster in the sky, dense enough at its core that its stars are separated by only a fraction of a light year.
| Type | Star Cluster |
|---|---|
| Cluster type | Globular |
| Distance from Earth | 14,500 ly |
| Diameter | 1,135,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.39 × 10^36 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 4.09 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1751 |
At 1,135,000,000,000,000 km across, 47 Tucanae is 89,075,498,352 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 699,849 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from 47 Tucanae tonight left it around 14,500 years ago.
It has been on record since 1751.
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