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今日天文图片展示了位于天蝎座中心的蝴蝶星团,由大约100颗年轻恒星组成,距离地球约1600光年。

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2025 July 19

Messier 6
Image Credit &Copyright: Xinran Li

Explanation: The sixth object inCharles Messier'sfamous catalog of things whichare not comets, Messier 6 is a galactic oropen star cluster.A gathering of 100 stars or so, all around 100 million years young,M6 lies some 1,600 light-yearsaway toward the central Milky Wayin the constellation Scorpius.Also cataloged as NGC 6405, the pretty star cluster'soutline suggests its popular moniker, theButterfly Cluster.Surrounded by diffuse reddish emission from the region's hydrogen gasthe cluster's mostly hot andtherefore blue stars are near the center ofthis colorful cosmic snapshot.But the brightest cluster member is a cool K-type giant star.Designated BM Scorpiiit shines with a yellow-orange hue,seen near the end of one of the butterfly's antennae.This telescopic field of viewspans nearly 2 Full Moons on the sky.That's 25 light-years at the estimated distance of Messier 6.

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