Messier 45

Average Distance from Earth: 238,855 Miles
Apparent Magnitude (when full): -12.74
Age: 4.5 Billion Years
Equatorial circumference: 6,783 miles

The nearest natural body to our planet Earth. Beautiful and bright and one of the two objects in our Solar System visible during the day. The other is our Sun of course!

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