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
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
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