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Cancer is a medium-size constellation with an area of 506 square degrees and its stars are rather faint, its brightest star Beta Cancri having an apparent magnitude of 3.5. It contains ten stars with known planets , including 55 Cancri , which has five: one super-earth and four gas giants , one of which is in the habitable zone and as such has ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Cancer. The 121 stars are sorted by decreasing brightness, beginning with Beta Cancri , the brightest star in Cancer. Name
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NGC 2556 is a lenticular galaxy located around 232 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. [1] NGC 2556 can be visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres since it is near the celestial equator. [2] NGC 2556 was discovered on February 17, 1865 by the astronomer Albert Marth, and it is not known to have an active ...
Acubens / ˈ æ k juː b ɛ n z /, [12] Bayer designation Alpha Cancri (α Cancri, abbreviated Alpha Cnc, α Cnc), is a star system in the constellation of Cancer. Nomenclature [ edit ]
The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger", "cot" or "crib"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189), is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. One of the nearest open clusters to Earth , it contains a larger population of stars than other nearby bright open clusters holding around 1,000 stars .
NGC 2775, also known as Caldwell 48, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer.It is 67 million light-years (20.5 megaparsecs) [3] away from the Milky Way.It was discovered by William Herschel in 1783.
Theta Cancri, Latinised from θ Cancri, is a multiple star [7] [3] system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer.It is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.32. [2]