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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
NGC 7243
An
open star cluster
in
Lacerta
, about 2,800
light years
from
Earth
. It appears to be a fairly young
cluster
in
stellar
terms, probably little more than 100,000,000 years old, and consists of hot
blue
and
white
stars
.
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