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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]
Tr / Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters; Tu — Tucker (double stars) Turner — David G. Turner (?) (open star clusters) (for example: Turner 9 at and near the variable star SU Cygni, aka 'SU Cygni cluster')
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]
The Messier catalogue comprises nearly all of the most spectacular examples of the five types of deep-sky object – diffuse nebulae, planetary nebulae, open clusters, globular clusters, and galaxies – visible from European latitudes. Furthermore, almost all of the Messier objects are among the closest to Earth in their respective classes ...
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 ...
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.