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June 2023
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Giant globular
Fernando Oliveira de Menezes from Jales, Brazil
47 Tucanae is the second-brightest globular cluster in the sky, behind only Omega Centauri. Under a dark sky in the southern hemisphere, 47 Tucanae is unmissable next to the Small Magellanic Cloud.