#ic 4725

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M25 // Michael Jarvis & Peter Butler

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M25 // Massimo Di Fusco

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M25 // Tomás Moreno

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M25 // NANDO VARELLA

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M25 // Jaroslav Salva

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M25 (right) and Pluto // Dave Erickson

The open cluster M25 can sometimes find itself behind some of the planets in our solar system on the sky. This was the case in 2012, when the dwarf planet Pluto passed near the cluster!

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M25 // Christian Liska

This unnamed open cluster is about 2,000 light years from Earth and contains about 600 known members. It is also not particularly young, with an age estimated to be about 67 million years old. In other words, this cluster came into being right before the dinosaurs died out!

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M25 // Marcelo Alves