🔭 M67 — King Cobra

Open cluster in Cancer

M67, King Cobra is a open cluster in the constellation Cancer, with an apparent magnitude of about 6.1, roughly 2.77 thousand light-years away.

Data

Catalogue designation	M67
Common name	King Cobra
Object type	Open cluster
Constellation	Cancer
NGC / IC	NGC 2682
Apparent magnitude	6.1
Distance (approx.)	2.77 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 Cancer: M44.

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