Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Pavo (Pav)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6752
NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular, Herbert Walter
NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular
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NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular

NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular, Herbert Walter
NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular
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NGC 6752 ... the Great Peacock Globular

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NGC 6752 (also known as Caldwell 93 and nicknamed the Great Peacock Globular) is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo. It is the fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22, respectively. The cluster lies around 13,000 light-years distant and is one of the closer globular clusters to Earth and has been calculated to be 11.78 billion years old.


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