Deep-sky object
47 Tucanae
47 Tucanae is a globular cluster 14 500 light-years away, in Tucana, about 180 light-years across, seen as it was 14 500 years ago.
The second-brightest globular cluster, a naked-eye ball of stars next to the Small Magellanic Cloud, though about 190 000 light-years nearer.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- globular cluster
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance
- 14 500 light-years
- Size
- about 180 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 4.1
- Catalogue
- NGC 104
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.