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NGC 346
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open cluster in the constellation Tucana
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 59 05.090
- Declination
- −72 ° 10 ′ 33.24 ″
- Distance
- 210,000 light-years
- Other designations
- ESO 51-10, N66
- Constellation
- Tucana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance from Earth
- 210000
- Image
- Ngc346.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 346
- catalog code
- ESO 51-10
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-08-01
- Commons gallery
- NGC 346
- right ascension
- 14.7712070
- declination
- -72.1759000
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 346 is a young open cluster of stars with associated nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) that appears in the southern constellation of Tucana. It was discovered August 1, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. J. L. E. Dreyer described it as, "bright, large, very irregular figure, much brighter middle similar to double star, mottled but not resolved". On the outskirts of the cluster is the multiple star system HD 5980, one of the brightest stars in the SMC.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 346” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.