Messier 67 (also known as M67 or NGC 2682) and sometimes called the King Cobra Cluster or the Golden Eye Cluster[5] is an open cluster in the southern, equatorial half of Cancer. It was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779. Estimates of …

2015年7月14日 · Messier 67 (M67), nicknamed the King Cobra Cluster, is an open cluster located in the northern constellation Cancer, the Crab. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 6.1 and lies at an approximate distance of 2,610 to 2,930 light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 2682 in the New General Catalogue.

2025年1月13日 · M67 is a collection of over 500 stars that are loosely gravitationally bound, a grouping known as an open cluster. Open clusters like this are typically quite young, but M67 is one of the oldest known open clusters at approximately 4 billion years of …

M 67 is an open star cluster of the Trumpler type II2m and one of the oldest known of this type. The age is estimated to be 10 billion years. It contains about 500 stars, measures about 12 light years in diameter, and is about 2500 light years away from us.

2025年1月23日 · M67 is an ancient open cluster in Cancer that hosts many red-giant stars. Image: Bernhard Hubl. Messier 67 in Cancer is somewhat of an anomaly for an open cluster, having formed billions of years ago, well beyond average …

Located between 2610 and 2930 light years from Earth is the King Cobra Cluster (aka. Messier 67), one of the oldest open star clusters

2014年1月16日 · Astronomers have spotted three planets in the star cluster Messier 67 when finding one is already a struggle. All three planets have mass similar to Jupiter. One orbits a …

Messier 67 (M67), also known as NGC 2682, is an open star cluster located in the constellation of Cancer. This cluster is particularly interesting because it is one of the oldest open clusters known, with an estimated age of about 3.2 to 4.8 billion years.

M67是已知最古老的疏散星团之一，也是目前最古老的Messier疏散星团，Star Catalog 2000给出它的年龄为32亿年；Mallas/Kreimer采用了更高、但很可能已经过时的数据——100亿年。

2023年3月22日 · Messier 67, also known as the King Cobra cluster or NGC 2682, is an open star cluster in the constellation of cancer. It’s best viewed in late winter and early spring. It is one of the oldest known star clusters and contains more than 500 stars!