Globular Cluster · M22

M22 — NGC 6656

M22 is one of the nearest and brightest globular clusters visible from Earth, located just 10,600 light-years away in Sagittarius. It is one of the few globular clusters resolved to show a faint planetary nebula-like structure within it. It

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