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Mark Fisher
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Wild Duck Cluster
M11, NGC 6705
A rich
open cluster
some six thousand
light years
further inward across the
Galactic
disk than our own
Solar System
. It contains about 200
stars
, and lies in the
constellation
of
Scutum
, the
Shield
.
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