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Open cluster M7 in Scorpius

author: Tom Davis/Novapix

reference: a-aou64-75003

Image Size 300 DPI: 24 * 24 cm

This cluster is roughly 780 light years from Earth. Its stars are about 220 million year-old. Dark clouds of opaque dust lay between us and the stars of the galactic central bulge. These appear to us as dark clouds against a prodigiously starry background. Many of these dark nebulae were imaged and cataloged by E. E. Barnard. This image contains Barnard 283, 286-7.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - B283 - B286 - B287 - BARNARD 283 - BARNARD 286 - BARNARD 287 - DARK NEBULA - M7 - NGC 6475 - OPEN CLUSTER - SCORPIUS - STAR - STAR CLUSTER -