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NGC 6441, sometimes also known as the Silver Nugget Cluster, is a globular cluster in the southern constellation of Scorpius. It was discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on May 13, 1826, who described it as "a small, well-defined rather bright nebula, about 20″ in diameter". Apparent but not even lose companion star is G Scorpii , also named Fuyue, is a . It has an apparent magnitude of +3.19. It is approximately 126 light-years from the Sun


Magnitude: 7.2
Constellation: Scorpius
Radius: 4.8
Metallicity: = −0.53 dex
Distance 42.7 ± 2.3 kly (13.1 ± 0.7 kpc)[2]