NGC 6025 (also known as Caldwell 95) is an

open cluster An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way galaxy, and ...

located 2,700 light years away in the

Triangulum Australe Triangulum Australe is a small constellation in the far Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "the southern triangle", which distinguishes it from Triangulum in the northern sky and is derived from the acute, almost equilateral p ...

constellation. It was discovered by

Abbe Lacaille Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (; 15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Goo ...

in 1751 or 1752 during his South Africa tour. NGC6025map

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NGC 6025 at SEDSNGC 6025 at Messier45
* {{DEFAULTSORT:NGC 6025 NGC 6025 6025 095b ? Triangulum Australe