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  2. Messier 41 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 41 (also known as M41 or NGC 2287) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. It is sometimes referred to as the Little Beehive Cluster . [ 4 ] It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and was perhaps known to Aristotle about 325 BC. [ 5 ]

  3. Canis Major - Wikipedia

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    The only Messier object is M41 (NGC 2287), an open cluster with a combined visual magnitude of 4.5, around 2300 light-years from Earth. Located 4 degrees south of Sirius, it contains contrasting blue, yellow and orange stars and covers an area the apparent size of the full moon —in reality around 25 light-years in diameter. [ 87 ]

  4. List of open clusters - Wikipedia

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    The open cluster Messier 6 in the constellation Scorpius is also known as the Butterfly Cluster or NGC 6405. This is a list of open clusters located in the Milky Way. An open cluster is an association of up to a few thousand stars that all formed from the same giant molecular cloud. There are over 1,000 known open clusters in the Milky Way ...

  5. Open cluster - Wikipedia

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    An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of tens to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way galaxy, and many more are thought to exist. [1]

  6. Beehive Cluster - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. Star cluster - Wikipedia

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    Scutum Star Cloud with open cluster Messier 11 at lower left. Technically not star clusters, star clouds are large groups of many stars within a galaxy, spread over very many light-years of space. Often they contain star clusters within them. The stars appear closely packed, but are not usually part of any structure. [17]

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  9. Hyades (star cluster) - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Tauri has a superjovian planet, which was the first planet to be discovered in any open cluster. [7] HD 285507 has a hot Jupiter, [50] K2-25 has a Neptune-sized planet, [51] and K2-136 has a system of three planets. [52] Another star, HD 283869, may also host a planet, but this has not been confirmed as only one transit has been ...