NGC 5053

id: ngc-5053-180-10929526
title: NGC 5053
text: NGC 5053 is the New General Catalogue designation for a globular cluster in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on March 14, 1784 and cataloged as VI-7. In his abbreviated notation, he described it as, "an extremely faint cluster of extremely small stars with resolvable nebula 8 or 10′ diameter, verified by a power of 240, beyond doubt". Danish-Irish astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer reported in 1888 that the cluster appea
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description: Globular cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5053
date created: 2016-08-10T22:23:41Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T12:13:06Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q1116680","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1116680"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/NGC5053_-_SDSS_DR14_%28panorama%29.jpg","width":2000,"height":2000}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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