MESSIER 44 - BEEHIVE CLUSTER (Emanuele La Barbera)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cancer (Cnc) · Contains: 41 Cnc) · Almalaf (ε Cnc · Beehive · M 44 · NGC 2632 · Praesepe Cluster · The star 38 Cnc · The star 39 Cnc · The star 40 Cnc · The star Meleph

MESSIER 44 - BEEHIVE CLUSTER, Emanuele La Barbera

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MESSIER 44 - BEEHIVE CLUSTER

M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or NGC 2632, is a bright open cluster visible in the constellation Cancer. It is one of the closest to the solar system and contains a rich population of stars, larger than those of other nearby open clusters. In a dark sky the cluster appears to the naked eye as a nebulous object; defined by Ptolemy "the nebulous mass in the bosom of Cancer", it was the first object that Galileo Galilei observed with his telescope on August 21, 1609 from Venice.
Distant between 550 and 610 light-years from Earth, the cluster is also visible from urban centres: its brightest components are of magnitude 6 and 7.
Age and proper motion are comparable to those of Hyades (in the constellation Taurus), suggesting that both clusters have a common origin.
Interesting to note is the presence of several galaxies, relatively small angularly, in the star field, with different classifications and distances.

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