Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Pavo (Pav)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6752
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NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in  Pavo, Herbert Walter
NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in  Pavo
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NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in Pavo

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NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in  Pavo, Herbert Walter
NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in  Pavo
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NGC 6752 Globular Cluster in Pavo

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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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