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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
M72
NGC 6981
A faint and diffuse Globular Star Cluster in the western parts of the constellation Aquarius. It is very distant indeed from Earth - nearly 60,000 light years away - and lies far beyond the Saturn Nebula, to which it appears close in the sky.
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