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Globular cluster NGC 6522 in Sagittarius - Globular cluster NGC 6522 in Sagittarius - This cluster of stars is located about 25,000 years - light from Earth towards the center of our galaxy
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Globular cluster NGC 6522 in Sagittarius - Globular cluster NGC 6522 in Sagittarius - This cluster of stars is located about 25,000 years - light from Earth towards the center of our galaxy. Photo obtained with Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. Around the nucleus of the Milky Way swirl vast numbers of relatively faint, old, yellow stars. They are seen overhead on southern winter nights as the brightest part of the Milky Way, the star clouds of Sagittarius. The Galactic centre is itself obscured by dust clouds at visible wavelengths, but in the 1940s, Walter Baade, working at Mt Wilson in the USA, identified a region with a line of sight close to the Galactic centre. This direction has the minimum of obscuration and it was here, in the 'window' around the globular cluster NGC 6522 that he was able to determine the first reliable distance to the centre of the Galaxy. Modern measurements place it at about 25,000 light years away, slightly greater than Baade's result

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