Praesepe

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Praesepe

One of the nearer open star clusters, located in the constellation of Cancer. To the naked eye it appears as a hazy patch, but a small telescope shows it to be a cluster of separate stars. It is very similar to the Hyades cluster, but is over four times further away from Earth.

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