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It's also not much of an "amateur astronomer's favorite". At least not without a source. I'm going to remove part of that sentence.
The2crowrox (
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07:52, 6 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Actually, a google search turned up a Science Daily article that refers to it as an "astronomer's favorite", and come to think of it, it *is* colorful, it's just that the human eye only percieves black and white (and blue) in dim light. Nebula filters or long-exposure photographs would reveal it to be colorful. So I'll leave that sentence alone and add a reference.
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08:02, 6 July 2010 (UTC)reply
In my book it said 7,600 light years instead of 5,200. Is that wrong?