Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5263  ·  NGC 5272
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M3 (LRGB), Joel Shepherd
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M3 (LRGB)

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M3 (LRGB)

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M3: approximately half a million stars, about eight billion years old, and 33,900 light years distant. Discovered by Messier in 1764, resolved to stars by Herschel in 1784, and possessing an "unusually large variable star population."

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