Double Cluster

Star Cluster

A pair of open clusters in Perseus that sit close enough together to share one telescope field, both only a few million years old.

Facts

TypeStar Cluster
Cluster typeOpen
Distance from Earth7,500 ly
Diameter331,100,000,000,000 km
Mass7.36 × 10^33 kg
Apparent magnitude3.7
Redshift0
Discovered150

Double Cluster in context

At 331,100,000,000,000 km across, Double Cluster is 25,984,931,722 times the diameter of Earth.

Its mass is 3,700 times the mass of the Sun.

The light reaching us from Double Cluster tonight left it around 7,500 years ago.

It has been on record since the year 150.

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