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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 galaxy, but the actual total may be up to ten times higher. [ 1 ]
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]
Pages in category "Open clusters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 334 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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 Cluster: 1.3 Carina: 3.8 C97 NGC 3766: Pearl Cluster: Open Cluster: 5.8 Centaurus: 5.3 C98 NGC 4609 Open Cluster: 4.2 Crux: 6.9 C99 - Coalsack Nebula: Dark Nebula: 0.61 Crux - C100 IC 2944: Lambda Centauri Nebula: Open Cluster and Nebula: 6 Centaurus: 4.5 C101 NGC 6744 Spiral Galaxy: 34,000 Pavo: 9 C102 IC 2602: Theta Car Cluster: Open ...
The following are lists of clusters: List of galaxy groups and clusters; List of open clusters; List of globular clusters; See also. List of superclusters
The Melotte catalogue is a catalogue of 245 star clusters compiled by British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte.It was published in 1915 as A Catalogue of Star Clusters shown on Franklin-Adams Chart Plates. [1]
Trumpler 14 (Tr 14) is an open cluster with a diameter of six light-years (1.8 pc), located within the inner regions of the Carina Nebula, approximately 8,980 light-years (2,753 pc) from Earth.