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47 Tucanae
NGC 104
A
Globular Cluster
so bright it can be seen with the naked eye, 47 Tucanae lies roughly 15,000
light years
from
Earth
, in approximately the direction of the
Small Magellanic Cloud
.
A spherical cloud of very ancient
stars
, the
Globular Cluster
47 Tucanae
lies just outside the disc of our
Milky Way
galaxy
.
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