M67

Star Cluster

One of the oldest open clusters known, holding more than a hundred Sun-like stars that have stayed bound together for billions of years.

Facts

TypeStar Cluster
Cluster typeOpen
Distance from Earth2,700 ly
Diameter189,200,000,000,000 km
Mass2.79 × 10^33 kg
Apparent magnitude6.1
Redshift0
Discovered1779

M67 in context

At 189,200,000,000,000 km across, M67 is 14,848,532,412 times the diameter of Earth.

Its mass is 1,400 times the mass of the Sun.

The light reaching us from M67 tonight left it around 2,700 years ago.

It has been on record since 1779.

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