- Washington (state) (Wikipedia)
Washington (/ˈwɒʃɪŋtən/), officially the State of Washington and often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the national capital, Washington, D.C., is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, by the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state’s largest city is Seattle.
- Messier 28 (Wikipedia)
Messier 28 or M28, also known as NGC 6626, is a globular cluster of stars in the center-west of Sagittarius. It was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764. He briefly described it as a “nebula containing no star… round, seen with difficulty in 31⁄2-foot telescope; Diam 2′.”
![With an apparent magnitude of 7.7, the [Messier 28] cluster appears as a faint patch of light through a pair of binoculars. Large telescopes can resolve its individual stars more effectively.](https://pinchy.cc/commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/M28_-_HST-U-V-IR.jpg/description-1-2/){kind=link}