Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  7 Cas  ·  7 rho Cas  ·  HD223924  ·  HD223969  ·  HD224425  ·  HD224435  ·  HD224436  ·  HD240465  ·  NGC 7789  ·  PGC 2549339  ·  PGC 2796229  ·  PGC 2796233  ·  PGC 2796240  ·  The star ρ Cas  ·  V373 Cas
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Caroline's Rose Cluster, Dan Vranic
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Caroline's Rose Cluster

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Caroline’s Rose ClusterFound among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia.A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is also known as Caroline's Rose.Its flowery visual appearance in small telescopes is created by the cluster's nestled complex of stars and voids. Now estimated to be 1.6 billion years young, the galactic or open cluster of stars also shows its age. All the stars in the cluster were likely born at the same time, but the brighter and more massive ones have more rapidly exhausted the hydrogen fuel in their cores.These have evolved from main sequence stars like the Sun into the many red giant stars shown with a yellowish cast in this full-spectrum image. I imaged this cluster in both Visible and Near-Infrared light. Over 50 light-years across, Caroline's Rose spans about half a degree (the angular size of the Moon) near the center of the wide-field telescopic image. Enjoy.

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