M35
open star cluster · in Gemini
2,735 light-years from Earth
A big, bright cluster at the feet of Gemini, about the size of the full Moon on the sky. The small, dimmer cluster NGC 2158 beside it is about four times farther away and about ten times older.
- 2,740 light-years (Gaia) · its stars spread over about 50 light-years
- about 150 million years old · 600 of its stars as Gaia measured them
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M35 · NGC 2168 · NGC 2158
- size
- 49 light-years across