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Loading contentA nearby open star cluster in Cancer, visible to the naked eye as a hazy patch.
star_cluster:messier-44Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/star_cluster:messier-44
Scientific entity. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
How Messier 44 (Beehive Cluster) connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
A catalogue of 110 deep-sky objects compiled by Charles Messier.
A loose, irregular group of a few dozen to a few thousand stars born together from the same molecular cloud, found in the disk of the Galaxy. Their stars share an age and composition, making open clusters key laboratories for stellar evolution; because they are only weakly bound, they gradually disperse over hundreds of millions of years.
Globular cluster in Tucana, magnitude 4.09.
Open cluster in Canis Major, magnitude 7.2.
Open cluster in Perseus, magnitude 3.8.
Open cluster in Crux, magnitude 6.9.
Globular cluster in Fornax, magnitude 13.59.
Open cluster in Cygnus, magnitude 7.3.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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