This week’s naked-eye object is the Northern Jewel Box, also known as ... latter constellation’s rich star field, however, makes it extremely difficult. This cluster spans an impressive ...

Through a telescope, the cluster appears to have two groups: one bright, one faint. Is the Jewel Box a melding of two star clusters or a visual line-of-sight oddity?

Like most open star clusters, the Jewel Box is made up of an array of sister stars, all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust with similar ages and chemical make-up. Located about 6,400 light ...

The Jewel Box cluster is about 6400 light-years away and is approximately 16 million years old. [1] Open, or galactic, star clusters are not to be confused with globular clusters ― huge balls of ...

Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky and are bound together by gravity. The Jewel Box may be visible from earth, but observing from ...

Jewel Box? star cluster, showcasingthe evolution of the stars within. The Kappa Crucis Cluster, also known as NGC 4755 or simplythe ?Jewel Box,?is just bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye.

The Jewel Box and the Seven Sisters (Matariki) star clusters look quite different, but that is mostly just a matter of circumstance. The Jewel Box is a typical open cluster of stars meaning that ...

IMAGE: The FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory was used to take this exquisitely sharp close up view of the colorful Jewel Box cluster. ESO: Star ...

The Kappa Crucis Cluster (NGC 4755), which resides near the Southern Cross, received the nickname the "Jewel Box" during the next century, when astronomer John Herschel viewed it through his ...

Some OCs have numerous coloured stars, with the most famous of all, the "jewel box” open cluster located under Mimosa (Beta Crux), the second brightest star in the Southern Cross. Within are ...

The Jewel Box cluster is about 6400 light-years away and is approximately 16 million years old. [1] Open, or galactic, star clusters are not to be confused with globular clusters ― huge balls of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually ... less-massive siblings. The Jewel Box cluster is about 6400 light-years away and is approximately 16 million years old.