Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  M 67  ·  NGC 2678  ·  NGC 2682
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M67, Roberto Marinoni
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M67 is an open cluster in Cancer constellation.

It has a diameter of 30’ and it is not so much showy like other open clusters, due also to its low stars concentration.

Indeed it is an interesting object because it is one of the oldest cluster in our galaxy, with an estimated age of 3.2 billion of years: in addition, it is not darkened by interstellar dust.

For these reasons it was widely studied in the past by astronomers to investigated about its stellar population, but also recently (2006) it was studied and several X rays sources were found inside it (info from Wikipedia).

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