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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6024. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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M24 was discovered by Messier in 1764 as a `star cluster'. It is not, however, a real cluster but simply a patch of the Milky Way that is seen through a tunnel in the otherwise obscuring interstellar dust and therefore looks like a cluster. This patch is visible to the naked eye two-thirds of the way between γ Scuti and μ Sagittarii. It has an average magnitude of 4.6....

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