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    Messier 67 (also known as M67 or NGC 2682) and sometimes called the King Cobra Cluster or the Golden Eye Cluster is an open cluster in the southern, equatorial...
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    The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas...
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    children to take up the sport." Messier was born in St. Albert, Alberta, the son of Mary-Jean (Dea) and Doug Messier. He was the second son and third...
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    This galaxy was discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in 1777. As an elliptical galaxy, Messier 49 has the physical form of a radio galaxy, but it...
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    suggestion to assign the galaxy a Messier number was made by Kenneth Glyn Jones in 1967, making it the last member of the Messier List. This galaxy has a morphological...
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    related to Messier 25 at Wikimedia Commons Messier 25, The Messier Catalog. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Messier 25 on WikiSky:...
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  • M67 (redirect from M-67)
    on captured Karabiner 98k (K98k) actions Macchi M.67, an Italian racing floatplane of 1929 Messier 67, an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer...
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    S2CID 119430366, A74. "Messier 75". SEDS Messier Catalog. Retrieved 30 April 2022. From trigonometry: radius = distance × sin( diameter_angle / 2 ) = 67 ly. van den...
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    Phecda (γ UMa, Gamma Ursa Majoris). Messier 109 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. Two years later Charles Messier catalogued the object, as an appended...
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    old, with a few rare exceptions as old as a few billion years, such as Messier 67 (the closest and most observed old open cluster) for example. They form...
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