Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3766  ·  Pearl Cluster
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Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766, Bruce Rohrlach
Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766
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Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766

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Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766, Bruce Rohrlach
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Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766

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The Pearl Cluster in Centaurus (located near the Lambda Centauri Nebula) is a very dense open star cluster that shimmers like a Pearl in the telescope eyepiece. It is located in the vast star-forming region of the Carina molecular cloud. In amongst the blue-white stars which include 11 Be-stars are two studs of gold, stunning red supergiant stars (with the deep orange-gold hues) that bracket the core of young blue stars. This cluster, bearing down on us at 14.8 km/second, is a great binocular target, and stunning in a high powered telescope eyepiece.

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Pearl Cluster - NGC 3766, Bruce Rohrlach