About 4,350 light-years away from Earth is an open cluster NGC 6530, a collection of several thousand stars located in the constellation Sagittarius, a cluster located within the Large Lagoon Nebula, which was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.The stars in NGC 6530 emit massive amounts of ultraviolet radiation, and ionize …
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