M36
open star cluster · in Auriga
3,669 light-years from Earth
The youngest of the three bright clusters in Auriga: hot blue stars with no red giants yet. About eight times closer, it would look much like the Pleiades.
- 3,670 light-years (Gaia) · its stars spread over about 20 light-years
- about 27 million years old · 217 of its stars as Gaia measured them
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M36 · NGC 1960
- size
- 21 light-years across