NGC 6281

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NGC 6281 (also informally known as the Moth Wing Cluster) is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Scorpius. It was not included in the Messier or Caldwell catalogues of nebulous objects, but it is the brightest such cluster in the constellation to be left out of both.

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