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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
Praesepe
M44, NGC 2632
An
open star cluster
in the central regions of the
constellation
of
Cancer
. It lies more than 500
light years
from the
Solar System
, and is thought to share its origins with the
Hyades
in
Taurus
.
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