AI overview
Messier 93 is an open cluster, which is a group of stars held together by gravity that formed around the same time from the same cloud of gas and dust. Astronomers study open clusters like this one to better understand how stars form and evolve over time.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 07 44 30.0
- Declination
- −23 ° 51 ′ 24 ″
- Distance
- 3.38 kly (1.037 kpc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 10′
- Mass
- 723 M ☉
- Radius
- 10 ly
- Estimated age
- 387.3 Myr
- Other designations
- NGC 2447, Cr 160, OCl 649.0
- Constellation
- Puppis
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Messier 93 or M93, also known as NGC 2447 or the Critter Cluster, is an open cluster in the modestly southern constellation Puppis, the imagined poop deck of the legendary Argo.
Observational history and appearance