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Balbinot 1

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About Balbinot 1

Balbinot 1 is about 104,109 light-years from the Sun, so the light we see from it left about 104,109 years ago.

It is 101,728 light-years from the centre of the Milky Way.

The map lists it as a globular cluster and shows it at the scale of the Milky Way and the Local Group, drawn on the plane of the Milky Way.

Classification ambiguous: may be a globular cluster or an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy.

Key numbers

Distance104,109 light-years (31.92 kpc)
Distance from the Galactic centre101,728 light-years
Galactic coordinatesl = 75.17°, b = -32.64°
Absolute magnitude (V)-1.2
Stellar mass5.25 × 10² suns
Half-light radius18 light-years

Data: Local Volume Database v1.1.1 (Pace 2025).

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Magellanic Clouds, a view about 520,000 light-years across.

From Wikipedia

Balbinot I is a low-luminosity globular cluster in the constellation of Pegasus. It is located 31.9 kpc away from the Sun, in the Milky Way galactic halo. Its total luminosity is similar to that of the clusters AM 4 and Koposov I, thus being one of the faintest globular clusters known.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Balbinot 1, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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