Open cluster M18 in Sagittarius

by: Jim Misti/Novapix
Reference: a-aou66-13002
Date: 2007-03-28

M18 (NGC 6613) is an open cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It contains only a couple of dozen members, about 5000 light-years away and quite young, only around 30 million years old.

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