Star Cluster NGC 3766 | ESO

Star Cluster NGC 3766 | ESO

This spectacular group of young stars is the open star cluster NGC 3766 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Very careful observations of these stars by a group from the Geneva Observatory using the Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have shown that 36 of the stars are of a new and unknown class of variable star.

Distance: 7,000 light years

This image was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: June 12, 2013

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