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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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