M18 (NGC 6613)
Open cluster in Sagittarius
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4900 light years away and fairly young at only about 32 million years old.
Image credit: Jim Misti, Misti Mountain Observatory, via http://www.mistisoftware.com/ -
Image Credit: Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) / IPAC
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Messier 18
Basic info on M18 -
Messier 18
How to find M18 in the night sky -
Messier Monday: A Well-Hidden, Young Star Cluster, M18
Lots of pics of M18 including some showing all the Messier objects within the Teapot asterism
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