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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                   2022 April 7   
      
                        Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud   
                Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Rodrigues Santos   
      
      Explanation: Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of   
      deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula.   
      It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a   
      view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky   
      Way galaxy. When you gaze at the star cloud with binoculars or small   
      telescope you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at   
      stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. Sometimes called the   
      Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24's luminous stars fill this gorgeous   
      starscape. Covering over 3 degrees or the width of 6 full moons in the   
      constellation Sagittarius, the telescopic field of view includes dark   
      markings B92 and B93 just above center, along with other clouds of dust   
      and glowing nebulae toward the center of the Milky Way.   
      
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