The Beehive Cluster, catalogued as Messier 44 and also called Praesepe, is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer holding a larger population of stars, around 1,000, than other nearby bright open clusters. Under dark skies it appears as a small nebulous patch to the naked eye and has been recognized since antiquity; the astronomer Ptolemy described it as a nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer, and it was among the first objects Galileo examined through a telescope.
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Also in Divinity Atlas: the constellation this subject lies in.
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Beehive Cluster (Wikipedia)
Beehive Cluster, Wikipedia - lead section, catalogue classification
The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger", "cot" or "crib"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189) is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer.
Beehive Cluster, Wikipedia - lead section, constellation
The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger", "cot" or "crib"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189) is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer.
In Group: Open Clusters, Lead sentence
The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger", "cot" or "crib"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189) is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer.
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