Sagittarius Star Cloud
star cloud · M24 · in Sagittarius
10,000 light-years from Earth
Not a cluster but a window: a gap in the dust of our galaxy through which we see a crowd of stars far off toward its inner parts. Dark clouds of dust such as Barnard 92 hang in front of it, and the open cluster NGC 6603 is seen within it.
- its stars are about 10,000 to 16,000 light-years away
- about 300 light-years across · a gap in the dust toward the inner galaxy
- kind
- nebula
- catalogue
- M24 · IC 4715
- drawn with it
- NGC 6603
- size
- 300 light-years across
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