Beehive

Beehive cluster may be twins in disguise
M44, the Beehive Cluster. New observations suggest that this may be two separate clusters, which are colliding with one another.

Beehive
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(star cluster): see Praesepe.
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Praesepe - (prs´p) [Lat.,=manger], open star cluster in the constellation Cancer; cataloged as M44 or NGC 2632.

THE BEEHIVE
The Beehive Cluster (also called the "Praesepe"), Messier 44, lies in central Cancer. At a distance of 595 light years, four times farther than the Hyades, this 750-million year old cluster appears smaller and fainter.

On a dark, moonless night - away from light polluted skies - you may see a blurry patch of light to the west (or upper right) of Jupiter. That's the pride and joy of Cancer: the Beehive star cluster! ...

Beehive
Located in the constellation Cancer. It is an open star cluster, which is also called Praesepe or M44 and faintly visible to the naked eye.

The Beehive cluster lies at RA 08 : 40.1, DEC +19 : 59, with a visual brightness of 3.7 magnitude and apparent dimension of 95.0 arc minutes. Known also as Praesepe (Latin for manger), it's Messier No. is M44.

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Preasepe (or Beehive) open star cluster in Cancer was known since antiquity. It is visible with a naked eye as a hazy spot just West of g Cancri and d Cancri and it is fully resolved in binoculars (see finder chart below).

M44 Praesepe, The Beehive Cluster
Description: open cluster
Constellation: Cancer
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M44 Praesepe, The Beehive Cluster (open cluster)
M67 (open cluster)
This is one of the 13 constellations of the Zodiac.

Praesepe, or the Beehive Cluster, is a very popular feature among astronomers. Also known as Messier 44, M44, NGC 2632 or Cr 189, the Beehive Cluster is located right in the centre of the Cancer constellation.

The " beehive cluster " Praesepe in Cancer is an example of an easily resolved cluster composed of fairly bright stars.

Along its journey to Eros, NEAR snapped unique photos of Earth, the Moon, Comet Hyakutake, and the Beehive and Pleiades star clusters.

This famous cluster is also known as Praesepe, and more recently, the Beehive Cluster. The Beehive was given this name because to some it resembles a swarm of bees.

The Mycenaeans buried their nobles in beehive tombs (tholoi), large circular burial chambers with a high vaulted roof and straight entry passage lined with stone. They often buried daggers or some other form of military equipment with the deceased.

Right next to the head is a star cluster known as Praesepe, or the Beehive. To the naked eye, it looks like a fuzzy cloud. Some civilizations believed it was an opening for souls to come down from Heaven.

The planet starts the month in Cancer on the edge of the Praesepe (Beehive) star cluster, M44. Over the following two mornings it will cross the cluster. Mars will be near the centre of Praesepe on the morning of the second.

8 light-years (ly) from our Sun, Sol, just north of the center (08:29:48+26:46.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Cancer, the Crab -- northwest of the famous open star cluster M 44 (also known as the Beehive Cluster and Praesepe, Latin for "Manger") ...

"Stars in a dwarf galaxy swarm like bees in a beehive instead of moving in nice, circular orbits like a spiral galaxy," explained Peñarrubia. "That makes it much more challenging to determine the distribution of dark matter." ...

"If you watched a time-lapse movie of our Galaxy, you would see a swarm of dwarf galaxies buzzing around it like bees around a beehive," explains Anna Frebel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ...

(Added 01/17/05) A dense globular star cluster near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy holds a buzzing beehive of rapidly-spinning millisecond pulsars, ...

The cluster is well-known as "The Praesepe", meaning of a crib, and also called "The Beehive Cluster" in English. It's best appreciated with binoculars or small scope, its 1.

At the center of the crab's shell is a huge open cluster, the Beehive cluster, also known as Praesepe (M44). The open cluster M67 is nearby. The brightest star in Cancer is Acubens (meaning claw); the second-brightest is Al Tarf (meaning tip).

A naked-eye open cluster in Cancer, about 160 pc distant. (Beehive Cluster) (M44, NGC 2632)
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A diffuse association of a few dozen to a few thousand stars, all of which were born together and which travel through space together. The Pleiades in Taurus and Beehive Cluster in Cancer are familiar examples.

Look for the constellation just to the west of Leo. Within Cancer can be found M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, or the Praesepe. This is an open cluster of stars, that under a dark sky looks like a small, fuzzy cloud.

In the winter you can see the Orion Nebula (a stellar nursery) and star clusters such as the Pleiades and the Beehive cluster.
In the summer months you can see the Great Cluster in Hercules.

703 × 10-11 curies or 1 curie = 37 × 109 becquerel. It is named after A. H. Becquerel (1852-1908), the French physicist who discovered radioactivity in 1896. The unit was approved by the 15th CGPM in May 1975. [JM92]
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bright and many observers do not realize these are actual deep sky objects that belong to one catalogue or another. Table 3 lists some these objects to a limiting magnitude of 4 (does not include obvious objects such as the Pleiades, the Beehive, ...

Ptolemy described Phatne as ‘the nebulous mass in the chest'. Astronomers now know this star cluster by its Latin name Praesepe, but it is popularly termed the Beehive (praesepe can mean both ‘manger' and ‘hive').

obvious feature in the image above is the large open cluster Messier 44, also known as Praesepe, which appears to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch. It is easly resolved into numerous faint stars in binoculars, hence its popular name, the Beehive ...

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