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The Cooling Tower Cluster, M29 // Willem Jan Drijfhout

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The Cooling Tower Cluster, M29 // Peter Morrison

Named after the cooling towers often found at nuclear power plants, the Cooling Tower Cluster is a relatively small open cluster of stars stretching out across only 11 light years. It is relatively faint, owing to the large amount of light-obscuring dust in this direction.

Although this is an original discovery of Messier's, William Herschel (1738-1822) found it unimpressive. He wrote that the cluster "is not sufficiently marked in the heavens to deserve notice." How rude!

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M29 // Manfred Fischer

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The Cooling Tower, M29 // John Favalessa

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Messier 29