Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2547
NGC 2547 - 140531, Jorge stockler de moraes
NGC 2547 - 140531
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Open cluster constellaton Vela, with very new stars, aged at 25 to 30 million of yesrs. The sun has 4.6 billions of years and has not yet reached middle age. Cluster like it has short life, and it should disperse in some handreds millions of years. With few red stars, distant 1,500 ly and angular size of 20' .

Stars in this stage of sequence is very important to observation of planetary disk and rock planets formation: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/670/1/516/fulltext/72068.text.html

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NGC 2547 - 140531, Jorge stockler de moraes