Thread: M 79 - Globular Cluster
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Old 25-11-2014, 11:01 PM
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Distant only of 41,000 light years, it is thought that M 79 isn't native to Milk Way, instead it is from Canis Major dwarf galaxy, very near and beeing merged.
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