Globular Cluster · M72

M72 — NGC 6981

M72 is one of the more remote globular clusters in the Messier catalogue, about 54,000 light-years away in Aquarius. It is intrinsically large and luminous, but its great distance makes it appear relatively faint. Its outer halo is graduall

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