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July 23, 1995
M20: The Trifid Nebula
Credit: Hopkins Observatory, Karen Gloria
For more information on M20 see The Electronic Universe Project's write-up.
Many images of Messier objects can be found in The Electronic Universe Project's The Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects.
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