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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:04 PM Jan 2013

124 light-years of starry goodness

47 Tucanae (also known as NGC 104) is located in the southern constellation Tucana. It’s bright enough to be seen without a telescope and, even though it’s very far away for a naked-eye object, covers an area about the size of the full Moon.

In reality the cluster is 124 light-years across.

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99380/so-many-stars/

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124 light-years of starry goodness (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2013 OP

k and r for this beautiful pic--thank you so much for sharing it. niyad Jan 2013 #1

niyad

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1. k and r for this beautiful pic--thank you so much for sharing it.

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Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:20 PM

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