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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Messier 93

Here's a Messier original, discovered in 1781. This here batch of
stars is a mere 3,600 ly from Earth and spans some 10 to 12 ly across.
Its age has been estimated at some 100 million years. Consider for a
moment, the planet Earth is 130 times older than that.

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