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NGC 6712
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NGC 6712 (also GCL 103) is a magnitude +8.69 globular star cluster located 22,500 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. The cluster was probably discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil on July 9, 1749 when investigating with a small refractor the Milky Way star cloud in Aquila...
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NGC 6728
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NGC 6728 is a magnitude +11.4 asterism located in the constellation Scutum. The group of stars were discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 16th June 1784. Right Ascension 18h 57m 31.4s, Declinati...
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NGC 6664
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NGC 6664 (also OCL 68) is a magnitude +7.8 open star cluster located 4,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 16th June 1784. [spo...
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ASASSN-14cl
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ATel 6233: ASAS-SN Discovery of a Very Bright Optical Transient
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NGC 6726
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NGC 6726 (also ESO 396-N13) is a magnitude +11.4 reflection nebula near NGC 6727 located 400(?) light-years away in the constellation Corona Australis near Gamma Coronae Australis. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt using a 15.75 cm (6.2 inch) f/15 Pl...
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NGC 6727
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NGC 6727 (also ESO 396-N14) is a magnitude +11.4 reflection nebula near NGC 6726 located 400(?) light-years away in the constellation Corona Australis near Gamma Coronae Australis. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt using a 15.75 cm (6.2 inch) f/15 Pl...
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NGC 6729
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New-born stars wreak havoc in their nursery Credit ESO A new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a close-up view of the dramatic effects new-born stars have on the gas and dust from which they formed. Although the stars themselves are not visible, material they have ejected is colliding with...
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Ophiuchus thin stellar stream
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Title: Serendipitous Discovery of a Thin Stellar Stream near the Galactic Bulge in the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey Author: Edouard J. Bernard, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Edward F. Schlafly, Mohamad Abbas, Eric F. Bell, Niall R. Deacon, Nicolas F. Martin, Hans-Walter Rix, Branimir Sesar, Colin T. Slater...
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T Scorpii
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Title: A Far-UV Survey of M 80: X-ray Source Counterparts, Strange Blue Stragglers and the Recovery of Nova T Sco Authors: Andrea Dieball, Knox S. Long, Christian Knigge, Grace S. Thomson, Dave R. Zurek Using the ACS on HST, we have surveyed the FUV and NUV populations in the core region of M80. The CMD...
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NGC 6453
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NGC 6453 (also ESO 393-SC36 and GCL 79) is a magnitude +10.2 globular star cluster located 37,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at the Cape of Good Hope o...
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Messier 62
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Messier 62 (also M62, NGC 6266, ESO 453-SC14 and GCl 51) is a magnitude +7.39 globular star cluster located 22,500 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. NGC 6266 is one of the most irregular globular clusters known. Its deformation, first reported by William Herschel, (who was the fir...
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NGC 6531
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Messier 21 (also M21, ESO 521-SC19, NGC 6531 and OCL 26) is a magnitude +6.5 open star cluster located 4,250 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. M21 contains about 57 stars, mainly small dim stars. The brightest stars are bluegiants of spectral type B0. On this basis, it is estimated...
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Messier 19
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Messier 19 or M19 (also designated NGC 6273) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764[5] and added to his catalogue of comet-like objects that same year. Read more
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IGRJ17361-4441
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Title: The XMM-Newton Slew view of IGRJ17361-4441: a transient in the globular cluster NGC 6388 Authors: A. A. Nucita, F. De Paolis, R. Saxton, A. M. Read IGRJ17361-4441 is a hard transient recently observed by the INTEGRAL satellite. The source, close to the center of gravity of the globular clust...
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IC 2944
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A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). The nebula, also known as IC 2944, is sometimes nicknamed the Running Chicken Nebula, from a b...
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