Deep-sky object
Flickering Globular
Flickering Globular is a globular cluster 22 200 light-years away, in Ophiuchus, about 50 light-years across, seen as it was 22 200 years ago.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Globular cluster
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance
- 22 200 light-years
- Size
- about 50.0 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 7.4
- Catalogue
- M62, NGC 6266
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
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.