Wild Duck Cluster
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The Wild Duck Cluster is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Scutum. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1681. Charles Messier included it in his catalogue of diffuse objects in 1764. It
Open cluster Messier 11 in Scutum
A portion of M11, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
M11 is visible with binoculars in the constellation of Scutum.
Open cluster
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An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of tens to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have be
Wild Duck Cluster
…The Wild Duck Cluster (also known as Messier 11, or NGC 6705) is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Scutum (the Shield). It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1681. Charles Messier included it in his catalogue of diffuse…
The Pleiades is among the nearest open clusters to Earth
Mosaic of 30 open clusters discovered from VISTA's data. The open clusters were hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. Credit ESO.
The star cluster NGC 3590
NGC 265, an open star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud