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«These new results show that planets in open star clusters are about as common as they are around isolated stars — but they are not easy to detect,» adds Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany), co-author of the new paper [6].

This star is located only about 11.8 light - years (ly) from our Sun, Sol, just north of the center (08:29:48 +26:46.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Cancer, the Crab — northwest of the famous open star cluster M 44 (also known as the Beehive Cluster and Praesepe, Latin for «Manger») and Ascellus Australis (Delta Cancri).

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It is one of the most spectacular open star clusters in the whole sky.

In tens of millions of years, this will be swept away and only an open cluster of stars will remain.

Open clusters are groups of stars that have formed together from a single cloud of gas and dust in the recent past.

The loose speckling of stars in this new ESO image is the open star cluster IC 4651, located within the Milky Way, in the constellation of Ara (The Altar), about 3000 light - years away.

One such beauty is NGC 299, an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light - years away.

It lies within the Milky Way, approximately 4600 light - years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, and consists of many sibling stars loosely bound together in what is known as an open cluster.

Globular clusters, which are found in the halo of a galaxy, contain considerably more stars and are much older than the less dense galactic, or open clusters, which are found in the disk.

During the first close approach just prior to four billion years in the future, the sky is ablaze with new star formation, which is evident in vast numbers of emission nebulae and open young star clusters (Image: NASA / STScI)

Open clusters are loosely bound collections of up to a few thousand stars.

The Soul Nebula is an open cluster of stars surrounded by a cloud of dust and gas over 150 light - years across and located about 6,500 light - years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, near the Heart Nebula.

Our latest publication is the Atlas of Open Star Clusters for which we have a PDF sample of the content for you to download.

The collection of very bright, young stars above and to the right of Eta Carinae is the open star cluster Trumpler 14.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discoveopen clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discoveOpen clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.

A second open star cluster, Collinder 228 is also seen in the image, just below Eta Carinae.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to search for transiting planets around their low - mass constituents.

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The additional 42 entries were mostly discovered earlier, and most of them (32) are open star clusters; there are no planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, elliptical and lenticular galaxies among them, and the only spiral galaxy in this list is our own, the Milky Way.

The density waves first concern interstellar matter, which is compressed, forms diffuse nebulae which become starforming regions, and later form (open) clusters and associations of young stars, the most lumionous and conspicuous of which are massive, hot, blue and short - lived.

The young open cluster NGC 6530 associated with the Lagoon Nebula M8 was classified as of Trumpler type «II 2 m n» (see e.g. the Sky Catalog 2000), meaning that it is detached but only weakly concentrated toward its center, its stars scatter in a moderate range of brightness, it is moderately rich (50 — 100 stars), and associated with nebulosity (certainly, with the Lagoon nebula).

Located in the constellation Taurus the Bull, the Pleiades is an open cluster of stars about 400 light years distant.

These two features have disastrous consequences as far as their ultimate fate is concerned, because open clusters are not sufficiently gravitationally bound to be able to withstand the disruptive tidal effects in the Galaxy (see star cluster: Open clusteopen clusters are not sufficiently gravitationally bound to be able to withstand the disruptive tidal effects in the Galaxy (see star cluster: Open clusteOpen clusters).

Open clusters are distributed in the Galaxy very similarly to young stars.

Globular cluster NGC 1850 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Most of the cluster consists of yellow stars; the bright white stars are members of a second, open cluster about 200 light - years beyond NGC 1850.

This small (and often neglected) open cluster can be found 2 ° south of M17 and 2 ° north of M24, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud.

The Trapezium Cluster is among the very youngest (open) clusters known, with new stars still forming in this region.

Immediately south of the star cloud, separated by a dark band, is the emission nebula IC 1283 - 1284, with two adjacent reflection nebulae, NGC 6589 and NGC 6590, all these nebulae associated with the little conspicuous open cluster NGC 6595.

Star Eta Carinae is involved in open cluster Trumpler 16.

Messier 17 is a star forming region with an open cluster, and it is part of a larger cloud of molecular gas found in the direction of Sagittarius.

Messier 46 (M46) is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Puppis, the Stern.

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