Pan of The Wishing Well Star Cluster: NGC 3532 in Carina | MPG/ESO Telescope
This open cluster of young stars was named the Wishing Well Cluster because, through a telescope’s eyepiece, it looks like a handful of silver coins twinkling at the bottom of a wishing well.
Distance: 1,300 light years
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Credit: ESO/G. Beccari
Duration: 56 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 26, 2014
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