The cluster contains hundreds of loosely bound stars.
The stars of an open cluster can range in age from a few tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years old. Since the clusters are only loosely bound by gravity, the stars may disperse after a few million years into the surrounding spiral or irregularThe recent Hubble photo, which NASA shared on Nov. 29, 2022, captures hundreds of stars scattered across the constellation, which can be
in the southern sky. The bright red object in the upper left of the image is a foreground star that is not part of the open star cluster. in open clusters. The stars captured in the photo are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which occur when the bright light from the stars reflects off of the space telescope's secondary mirror support.