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M79
NGC 1904
An enormously distant
Globular Cluster
in the
constellation
of
Lepus
, near its border with
Columba
.
Messier
79 is thought to be up to 45,000
light years
from the
Solar System
, a distance comparable to the radius of the
Galactic disc
.
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Lepus
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