NGC 7006

Magnitude 10.6 globular cluster located 135,000 light-years away in the constellation Delphinus. NGC 7006 appears in the science fiction novel Beyond the Farthest Star by Edgar Rice Burroughs, where it is used as a point of reference by the inhabitants of the planet Poloda to determine the approximate location of Earth.

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