Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud

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Explanation: Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy.

Image Credit & Copyright: Emmanuel Astronomono



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Un 24 de mayo, pero de 1732, también fue 24 mayo no le dieron tanta importancia.

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M24 Sagittarius Star Cloud

Magnitude 4.6 star cloud located 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. It is about 600 light-years wide and lies in the Sagittarius Arm of our galaxy, the next inner spiral arm to our own. In the night sky, the star cloud appears about 9 times larger than the full Moon.

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