NGC 3293 (Dong Liang)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: HD302961 · HD303057 · HD303059 · HD303060 · HD303062 · HD303063 · HD303064 · HD303065 · HD303068 · HD303069 · HD303071 · HD303072 · HD303073 · HD303074 · HD303076 · HD303077 · HD91824 · HD91850 · HD91943 · HD91969 · HD91983 · HD92007 · HD92024 · HD92044 · HD92121 · HD92189 · HD92205 · NGC 3293

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NGC 3293 is an open star cluster located in the southern edge of the constellation Carina. It was first observed by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1751. The cluster contains over 100 stars brighter than magnitude 14, distributed over an area of 10 arcminutes in diameter. The brightest star is a blue supergiant with a visual magnitude of 6.5-6.7. Additionally, there is a pulsating red supergiant V361 Carinae with a magnitude of 7.

NGC 3293 is a very young cluster, with an estimated age of only about 12 million years. Its internal mass distribution is uneven, with larger stars concentrated in the central region, but it has not yet reached dynamical relaxation, and is still evolving.

Open star clusters are groups of stars that were formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, and they provide ideal targets for studying stellar evolution and interactions between stars. The high stellar density of NGC 3293 makes it an excellent laboratory for these studies. The blue supergiants dominate the cluster's spectral types, but other types of stars are also present, such as blue, white, and yellow main-sequence stars, red giants, red supergiants, and variable stars.

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RA (center)	10h35m48s.833
RA (top/left)	10h37m48s.199
RA (top/right)	10h33m53s.617
RA (bottom/right)	10h33m47s.834
RA (bottom/left)	10h37m45s.840

Dec (center)	-58°13′04″.50
Dec (top/left)	-57°57′51″.14
Dec (top/right)	-57°57′18″.41
Dec (bottom/right)	-58°28′09″.93
Dec (bottom/left)	-58°28′42″.68

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