NGC 4833

NGC 4833 is an old star cluster in the southern constellation of Musca. It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in his 1751-1752 trip to South Africa and it was catalogued in 1755. Caretta (2021) found the stars in this cluster had lots of potassium for a metal-poor cluster. In order to study NGC 4833 and […]

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NGC 2158

Star clusters are large groups of stars held together by the gravitational force they exert on themselves. There exist two main types of star clusters – globular clusters are tight groups of ten thousand to millions of old gravitationally bound stars, and open clusters are groups of tens to a few thousand stars formed from the same molecular […]

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