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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]
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 ...
The Collinder catalogue is a catalogue of 471 open clusters compiled by Swedish astronomer Per Collinder.It was published in 1931 as an appendix to Collinder's paper On structural properties of open galactic clusters and their spatial distribution.
Open clusters are often dominated by hot young blue stars, because although such stars are short-lived in stellar terms, only lasting a few tens of millions of years, open clusters tend to have dispersed before these stars die. A subset of open clusters constitute a binary or aggregate cluster. [2]
Globular cluster: Nearest globular cluster to the Earth. Also the first globular cluster known to have exoplanets (PSR B1620-26b) Messier 12: 74.4 [28] Messier 70: 68 [29] NGC 290: 66 [30] Open cluster: Messier 28: 60 [31] Globular cluster: Messier 18: 52.4 [32] Open cluster: The following notable star clusters are listed for the purpose of ...
The Cassiopeia-Perseus open cluster family is located 2 kpc from the Sun between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Perseus, embedded in the Perseus spiral arm (de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos 2009). The structure roughly defines a plane that is inclined almost 30° with respect to the plane of the Milky Way.
Moffat (open star clusters) (for example: Moffat 1 at 16:01:30 / -54°07'00" in Norma) Moitinho (open star clusters) (for example: Moitinho 1 at 8:19:17 / -45°12'30", southwest of the Gum Nebula, in Vela) MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
Messier 26, also known as NGC 6694, is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scutum.It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. [a] This 8th magnitude cluster is a challenge to find in ideal skies with typical binoculars, where it can be, with any modern minimum 3-inch (76 mm) aperture device.