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Globular Cluster M5

Credit: Credit: Gianni Tumino (astrofilisiciliani.org)
M5 is perhaps the most spectacular globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere, and can even be seen under excellent conditions with the naked eye, in the constellation Serpens.

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Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.
- Murray Bookchin (b. 1941), U.S. ecologist.

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