Beehive Cluster, M44

A bright cluster of several hundred stars that formed about 700 million years ago.

Cancer, the Crab October 4, 2011

Venus in the Beehive Closing in on a beehive June 6, 2015

Disappearing Cluster An evaporating star cluster June 1, 2014

The Beehive Brightening up a meager constellation February 14, 2013

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