🔭 M29 — Cooling Tower Cluster

Open cluster in Cygnus

M29, Cooling Tower Cluster is a open cluster in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent magnitude of about 7.1, roughly 7.2 thousand light-years away.

Data

Catalogue designation	M29
Common name	Cooling Tower Cluster
Object type	Open cluster
Constellation	Cygnus
NGC / IC	NGC 6913
Apparent magnitude	7.1
Distance (approx.)	7.2 thousand light-years

What a open cluster is

A loose, young family of a few dozen to a few thousand stars born together from the same gas cloud and drifting apart over time. The Pleiades are the most famous example.

Other Messier objects in Cygnus: M39.

Data: Messier catalogue & IAU constellations, via English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · stored statically.