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

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