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      Praesepe Cluster aka "Beehive Cluster"
      Wallpaper author:
      Nicole Jenkins

      03 May 2021

      Praesepe Cluster aka "Beehive Cluster"

      An open cluster in the constellation Cancer. One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, it contains a larger population of stars than other nearby bright open clusters. Under dark skies, the Beehive Cluster looks like a small nebulous object to the naked eye, and has been known since ancient times. Classical astronomer Ptolemy described it as a "nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer". It was among the first objects that Galileo studied with his telescope.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      M44

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      CHI-4-CCD

      Praesepe Cluster aka "Beehive Cluster"