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Zooming in on Star Cluster NGC 3766 | ESO

Zooming in on Star Cluster NGC 3766 | ESO

This zoom video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and ends with a close-up look at a spectacular group of young stars—the open star cluster NGC 3766 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). 

Distance: 7,000 light years

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 members of a new and unknown class of variable star.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Nick Risinger/Hiro

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: 2013


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