Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 26, 2016
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Johan Doppelmayr's celestial chart of Pavo, c. 1742
light years distant. Six of the star systems in Pavo have been found to host planets, including HD 181433 with a super-earth, and HD 172555 with evidence of a major interplanetary collision in the past few thousand years. The constellation contains NGC 6752, the third-brightest globular cluster in the sky, and the spiral galaxy NGC 6744, which closely resembles our Milky Way but is twice as large. (Full article...)
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