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    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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    or NGC 2287) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. It is sometimes referred to as the Little Beehive Cluster. It was discovered by Giovanni...
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    Beehive Cluster, located right in the centre of the constellation. Located about 590 light-years from Earth, it is one of the nearest open clusters to...
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    December 9, 2010. "Utah State Star and Astronomical Symbol - Dubhe & the Beehive Cluster". Pioneer: Utah's Online Library. State of Utah. Retrieved December...
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  • newspaper Beehive burner, a conical wood waste burner Beehive Cluster, a cluster of stars Beehive stone, a conical rock formation found in Hungary Beehive fireworks...
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    331: 81, arXiv:astro-ph/9707253, Bibcode:1998A&A...331...81P "The Beehive Cluster". BBC Sky at Night Magazine. July 19, 2021. Archived from the original...
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    Jupiters are known to exist in the Beehive Cluster. List of open clusters Moving groups Open cluster family Open cluster remnant Frommert, Hartmut; Kronberg...
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    des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles [fr] (Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list...
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  • J08421149+1916373) is a Sun-like late G or early K-type main-sequence star in the Beehive Cluster, or Praesepe, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Cancer...
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  • Pr0211 b are notable for being the first exoplanets discovered in the Beehive Cluster located in the constellation Cancer. Since Pr0201 b has a mass of about...
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    up the carapace (inner shell) of the Crab. Contained within is the Beehive Cluster (Messier 44) which includes Epsilon Cancri. The Snake Head is the westernmost...
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    Cluster M35 Open Cluster M39 Winnecke 4 (M40) Open Cluster M41 The Orion Nebula (M42) The De Mairan's Nebula (M43) The Beehive Cluster (M44) The Pleiades...
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  • A6Vn in Beehive Cluster; δ Sct variable, ΔV = 0.03m 42 Cnc 42 73785 42578 08h 40m 43.23s +19° 43′ 09.6″ 6.83 0.87 506 A9III in Beehive Cluster 7 Cnc 7...
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  • In beekeeping, a winter cluster is a well-defined cluster of honey bees that forms inside a beehive when the air temperature dips below 10 to 14 °C (50...
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  • used to poison predators Messier 44 (M44), an open star cluster also called the Beehive Cluster Progress M-44, a spacecraft used to resupply the International...
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    This is a list of open clusters located in the Milky Way. An open cluster is an association of up to a few thousand stars that all formed from the same...
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    Dionysus's Asses (Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis) and Manger (Beehive Cluster) 3rd century BC Aratus Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis middle...
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    The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled...
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    Melotte catalogue (category Star clusters)
    of 245 star clusters compiled by British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte. It was published in 1915 as A Catalogue of Star Clusters shown on Franklin-Adams...
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    eclipsed Sun will be in mid-Cancer, a few degrees southeast of the Beehive Cluster (which will not be visible to the naked eye) and Venus (which will...
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  • Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. Other objects in the catalogue can be found in...
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    zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is the brightest member of the Beehive Cluster (or Praesepe) with an apparent visual magnitude of +6.29, which is...
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    location of houses that mimic the beehive architecture and they are still in existence today. The structures, which are clustered together like a termite colony...
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    NGC 2516 (redirect from Diamond Cluster)
    open star cluster in the southern sky in the constellation Carina discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751-1752. It is also called Southern Beehive or the Sprinter...
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    be occulted by the Moon. In addition, two star clusters visible to the naked eye, the Beehive Cluster and the Pleiades, are often occulted. Depending...
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  • Borealis) δ Cnc (Asellus Australis) 積屍 (Jī Shī, Cumulative Corpses) M44 (Beehive Cluster) 爟 (Guàn, Beacon Fire) ψ Cnc λ Cnc (Piautos) φ1 Cnc 15 Cnc 外廚 (Wài...
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    System). Delta Cancri also marks the famous open star cluster Praesepe (or the Beehive Cluster, also known as Messier 44). In ancient times M44 was used...
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    triangulation of the Beehive Cluster in 1894 and the two star clusters h Persei and χ Persei, which together form the Double Cluster, between 1891 and 1896...
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  • constellation Cancer, located about 614 light years from the Sun in the Beehive Cluster (NGC 2632). It is a challenge to see with the naked eye, having an...
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  • the constellation Cancer. It appears near the Beehive Cluster in the sky, but it is closer than the cluster and is not a member of it. The system is composed...
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