Deep-sky object
Jellyfish Cluster
Jellyfish Cluster is a globular cluster somewhere between 27 800 and 31 000 light-years away, in Capricornus, about 77 light-years across.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Globular cluster
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Distance
- 27 800 to 31 000 light-years
- Size
- about 77.0 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 7.1
- Catalogue
- M30, NGC 7099
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.