Star cluster

Credit: CELESTIAL IMAGE CO./SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Star cluster. Optical image of the open star cluster NGC 2516. North is at top. Open clusters are groups of hundreds or thousands of young stars which are thought to have been born at around the same time from the same cloud of gas. The young stars of the cluster appear blue. NGC 2516 lies around 1300 light years away in the constellation Carina.

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Keywords: astronomy, cluster, cosmology, ngc 2516, open, open cluster, open star cluster, science, star, star cluster, stars, stellar

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