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                                   2024 July 18   
      
                        Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Freeburn   
      
      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. Direct your gaze through this gap with binoculars or small   
      telescope and 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 are left   
      of center in this gorgeous starscape. Covering over 6 degrees or the   
      width of 12 full moons in the constellation Sagittarius, the telescopic   
      field of view includes dark markings B92 and B93 near the center of   
      M24, along with other clouds of dust and glowing nebulae toward the   
      center of the Milky Way.   
      
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