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The Wild Duck cluster, M11, a lovely open cluster in Scutum

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The Wild Duck cluster, M11, a lovely open cluster in Scutum
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This is the Wild Duck cluster (M11), an open star cluster, as imaged by the European Southern Observatory’s 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Image via ESO. Used with permission.
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The Wild Duck cluster, also known as Messier 11 or M11, is a distant open star cluster. That is a loosely bound collection of stars that were born from the sa

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