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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
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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