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M44 - Beehive Cluster in Cancer

Mon, 02/08/2010 — Daniel
Designation M44
NGC 2632
Common Name Beehive Cluster
Type Open Cluster
Distance 577 light years
Constellation Cancer
Magnitude 3.7

# Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF.

Image Courtesy of: Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.

Data courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_44