NGC 1818
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| NGC 1818 | |
 A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1818. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA. |
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| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Tucana |
| Right ascension | 05h 04m 13.8s[1] |
| Declination | -66° 26′ 02″[1] |
| Distance | () |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 9.7B[1] |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | kg ( M ) |
| Estimated age | 20 Myr[2] |
| Notable features | Rare young globular |
| See also: Globular cluster, List of globular clusters | |
NGC 1818 is a young globular cluster, estimated to be only about 20 million years old. Almost all known globulars have their age estimated to be between 4-14 billion years. It is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c (SIMBAD 2007)
- ^ (Johnson et al. 2001)
[edit] References
- Johnson, R. A.; S. F. Beaulieu & G. F. Gilmore et al. (2001), "Young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: NGC 1805 and 1818", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 324 (2): 367-380, <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001MNRAS.324..367J>
- SIMBAD (January 8, 2007), Results for NGC 1818, SIMBAD, Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg, <http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident=NGC+1818>
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