Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  HD46783  ·  HD47106  ·  HD47157  ·  PGC 136495
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Open Cluster Trumpler 5 (Tr5), Nick Large
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Open Cluster Trumpler 5 (Tr5)

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Open Cluster Trumpler 5 (Tr5), Nick Large
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Open Cluster Trumpler 5 (Tr5)

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The old open cluster Trumpler 5 (Tr5), aka Collinder 105 (Cr105), is 2.4 billion years old. At that age, all of its blue stars have died. The cluster still holds on to most of its stars, because the cluster was clearly born quite massive. Many open clusters are destroyed as a consequence of interactions with molecular clouds on time scales of a few hundred million years or less. Thus, few very old clusters are believed to have survived up to the present stage. Tr5 is almost certainly located in a "quiet" part of the Milky Way, where it is not disturbed by the passage of large molecular clouds. It is located behind some nebulosity that can be seen in this image.

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