Wallpaper author:
Ken Abremski
15 Jan 2026
NGC 2516
The Southern Beehive cluster in the constellation of Carina. The cluster is very young only about 120 M yrs old. Also known as Caldwell 96. The cluster contains a number of "optical" doubles and three red giants. Data was processed with PixInsight, RC-Astro Tools, and Photoshop.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2516
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