Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 3  ·  NGC 5272
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M3, Brice Fayd'Herbe
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Messier 3 is one of the brightest, largest, and most impressive globular clusters in the sky. It contains more than 500,000 stars, lies at a distance of 33 000 light-years away, and is estimated to be about 11.4 billion years old.

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M3, Brice Fayd'Herbe