The "Jewel Box", NGC 4755
NGC4755, an open star cluster in the constellation Crux, displays its many colors in this picture from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope. It is popularly known as the Jewel Box because an early catalog described it as a "superb piece of jewelry".
Credit:NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
About the Image
Id: | noao-6053 |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | June 30, 2020, 9:34 p.m. |
Size: | 2960 x 2002 px |
About the Object
Name: | Jewel Box, NGC 4755 |
Category: | Star Clusters |