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.
| Type | Star Cluster |
|---|---|
| Cluster type | Open |
| Distance from Earth | 2,700 ly |
| Diameter | 189,200,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 2.79 × 10^33 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.1 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1779 |
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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