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Canes Venatici
The Hunting Dogs
This rather indistinct
star
-group is home to a wide cluster of
galaxies
, but none of these are bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
Canes Venatici
, the
Hunting Dogs
, mark an area of the sky near the
Northern Galactic Pole
, and so they describe a slice of sky perpendicular to the plane of our
Galaxy
.
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