NGC 6496
id:
ngc-6496-182-10268903
title:
NGC 6496
text:
NGC 6496 is a globular cluster which is in the direction of the Milky Way's galactic bulge based on observations collected with the WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6496 was originally believed to be a member of the disc system of the Galactic Center, but scientists questioned this classification. It was instead suggested that NGC 6496, together with two other clusters, NGC 6624 and NGC 6637, could be halo clusters with strongly inclined orbits. NGC 6496 lies in the Southern sky at
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6496
date created:
2011-09-07T22:19:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T13:40:00Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1146141","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1146141"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/NGC_6496.jpg","width":4194,"height":4120}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16