Messier 5
M5
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Object
- Type (NASA)
- Globular Cluster
- Distance from Earth
- 25,000 light-years
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.7 mag
- Apparent size
- 17 ′
- NASA description
- Messier 5’s stars formed more than 12 billion years ago.
Source:NASA Hubble (Messier/Caldwell catalogs) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA HEASARC (Goddard Space Flight Center) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 25,000 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left 25,000 years ago (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- It spans about 17′ of sky — about half the full Moon's 31′.
Worked out from this object's official values.