Star Cluster
One of the nearest open clusters to the Sun, seen by the naked eye as a hazy patch in Cancer and resolved into dozens of stars by Galileo in 1609.
| Type | Star Cluster |
|---|---|
| Cluster type | Open |
| Distance from Earth | 610 ly |
| Diameter | 216,100,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.19 × 10^33 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 3.7 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 150 |
At 216,100,000,000,000 km across, Beehive Cluster is 16,959,660,964 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 600 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Beehive Cluster tonight left it around 610 years ago.
Of the 12 star clusters these pages cover, only 2 lie closer to us.
It has been on record since the year 150.
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