Beehive Cluster
Star cluster
The catalogue that supplied this record classes it more precisely as an open cluster.
A loose swarm of about a thousand stars, near enough that the unaided eye sees it as nothing more than a blur of light.
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What it looks like
A photograph of this patch of sky, taken by a telescope on the ground. Beehive Cluster sits in the middle, with the surrounding sky around it.
Brightness adjusted so faint detail shows. Every picture here is a rendering of the survey's measurements rather than a measurement itself, and this is the same setting for all of them.
- Position
- 130.09250, 19.67206Source: NASA Extragalactic Database
- Brightness
- about 3.1Source: SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Apparent size
- about 108.6 arcminutesSource: HEASARC mwsc table
- Constellation
- CancerSource: OpenNGC
- Catalogue name
- Beehive
Catalogue designations
NGC2632, M44, MWSC 1527
Source: OpenNGC