Messier 29, also known as M29, NGC 6913 or the Cooling Tower Cluster, is a small, bright open cluster of stars in the constellation Cygnus, lying just south of the bright star Gamma Cygni. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 and can be seen from Earth with binoculars.
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Also in Divinity Atlas: the constellation this subject lies in.
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1. Wikidata: Messier 29
- Wikidata Q13647, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- wikidata-q13647 Wikidata claim (w-bbfill-edspace5-0927)
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Messier 29 (Wikipedia)
Messier 29, Wikipedia - lead section, catalogue classification
Messier 29 or M29, also known as NGC 6913 or the Cooling Tower Cluster, is a quite small, bright open cluster of stars just south of the central bright star Gamma Cygni of a northerly zone of the sky, Cygnus.
In Group: Open Clusters, Lead sentence
Messier 29 or M29, also known as NGC 6913 or the Cooling Tower Cluster, is a quite small, bright open cluster of stars just south of the central bright star Gamma Cygni of a northerly zone of the sky, Cygnus.
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