File:Messier 6 - The Butterfly Cluster.jpg
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RADEC 17 40 20.000 -32 15 12.0 Messier 6 (NGC 6405) is an open cluster in Scorpius. The first astronomer to report the Butterfly Cluster's existence was the Italian Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654. Wu et al. (2009) found a distance estimate of 1,590 light-years and real spatial dimension of some 12 light years. |
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| Author | Giuseppe Donatiello from Oria (Brindisi), Italy |
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