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Old 19-08-2009, 09:19 PM
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NGCs 1850/54/58

Includes the very weird NGC 1850 (the cluster with the swirling gas).

NGC 1850 is a double globular cluster the 2 components are only 40 million and 4 million years ago.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sjastro/ngc1850nnc.html

Here is the 8.2M VLT image of it and a brief description.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001224.html

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Steven
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