NGC 1755 is in good company: the Pleiades is another example of a small stellar cluster.
, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located approximately 200,000 light-years from Earth.
Consider this stellar cluster a modest piece of celestial jewelry. Star clusters are any collection of stars that are gravitationally bound to one another, but this particular set is on the smaller side. NGC 1755 is an open cluster, a smaller collection of stars home to generally younger stars, and it measures just 120Although open clusters typically host similar stars, ESA representatives noted that stars of different properties can exist in the same cluster.
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