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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 3.5.
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 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 ...
83 Cancri is an astrometric binary [6] [7] star system in the northern constellation of Cancer, positioned near the constellation border with Leo. It is a challenge to view with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.61. [2] Despite having a Flamsteed designation, the system was too faint to be included in the Bright Star ...
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]
Zeta Cancri (ζ Cancri, abbreviated Zeta Cnc, ζ Cnc) is a multiple star system in the constellation of Cancer. It is approximately 83.4 light-years from Earth, and has a combined apparent magnitude of +4.67. Since it is near the ecliptic, it can be occulted by the Moon and, very rarely, by planets. The system is constituted as follows: [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.