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"Cross that rules the Southern Sky! Stars that sweep, and turn, and fly Hear the Lovers' Litany: 'Love like ours can never die!'" -Rudyard Kipling Welcome back for yet another Messier Monday, where we choose one of the 110 deep-sky objects making up Charles Messier's 18th Century catalogue to highlight in detail. Originally designed as a catalogue to help comet-hunters avoid potential confusion with faint, fuzzy objects, this now serves as a wonderful collection of star clusters, nebulae, stellar corpses, globular clusters and galaxies, among others. Image credit: Pedro Ré of Astrosurf, via…