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esiegel | November 11, 2013"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." -Abraham Lincoln
It might be Veterans Day / Armistice Day all around the world, but it's still Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! We may have been fighting wars for all of human history, but nearly all of the 110 deep sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue go back long before that.
Image credit: Tenho Tuomi of Tuomi Observatory, via http://www.lex.sk.ca/.
Today, we take an in-depth look at one of the brightest and closest star clusters in the entire night sky, one that -- despite being…