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| | Messier Object 14 |
 | | M14 is a slightly elliptically shaped stellar swarm, about 100 light years across and about 30,000 light years away; older determinations have given values between 64,000 ly (Shapley) and 23,000 (Mallas/Kreimer) to 24,000 ly (Glyn Jones, Kinman, Becvar); the Sky Catalogue 2000.0 had 38,000 ly. |
 | | In 1938, a nova appeared in M14, which however was not discovered before 1964, when Amelia Wehlau of the University of Western Ontario surveyed a collection of photographic plates taken by Helen Sawyer Hogg between 1932 and 1963 (Hogg and Wehlau, 1964). |
 | | Globular cluster M14 is one of the original discoveries of Charles Messier who cataloged it on June 1, 1764 and described it as a round nebula without stars. |
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