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Four new open clusters detected in the Cygnus Cloud – Phys.org
By analyzing the data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have discovered four new open clusters in the Cygnus Nebula Cloud. The newfound clusters, designated QC1 to QC 4, are located between 4,100 and 7,600 light-years away. The finding is reporte…
By analyzing the data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have discovered four new open clusters in the Cygnus Nebula Cloud. The newfound clusters, designated QC1 to QC 4, are located between 4,100 and 7,600 light-years away. The finding is reported in a paper published August 17 on arXiv.org.
Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars loosely gravitationally bound to each other, which form from the same giant molecular cloud,. So far, more than 1,000 of them have been discovered in the…
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