Globular Cluster · M54

M54 — NGC 6715

M54 is one of the most distant globular clusters in the Messier catalogue, at 87,400 light-years — and one of the most remarkable, because it is not actually a Milky Way cluster at all. It belongs to the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

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