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Cancer is one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere.Its name is Latin for crab and it is commonly represented as one. . 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
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 .
HD 73344 is a star located in the constellation Cancer. It has a faint apparent magnitude of 6.9 and therefore can't be seen by the naked eye. It is located 35.2 parsecs (115 light-years) away based on parallax measurements. This star hosts three confirmed exoplanets.
NGC 2608 (also known as Arp 12) is a barred spiral galaxy located 93 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). It is 62,000 light-years across, and about 60% of the width of the Milky Way.
NGC 2648 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cancer. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 2,451 ± 19 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 36.2 ± 2.6 Mpc (∼118 million ly). [1] NGC 2648 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784. [1]
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.
Gamma Cancri, or γ Cancri, is a star in the northern constellation of Cancer. It is formally named Asellus Borealis / ə ˈ s ɛ l ə s b ɒ r i ˈ æ l ɪ s /, the traditional name of the system. [12] Based on parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of approximately 181 light years from the Sun.
Messier 67 (also known as M67 or NGC 2682) and sometimes called the King Cobra Cluster or the Golden Eye Cluster [5] is an open cluster in the southern, equatorial half of Cancer. It was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779. Estimates of its age range between 3.2 and 5 billion years.