M38
open star cluster · in Auriga
3,540 light-years from Earth
The third of Auriga's bright clusters. Its brightest stars are said to form a cross or a starfish, and a few yellow giants shine among its brightest members.
- 3,540 light-years (Gaia) · its stars spread over about 55 light-years
- about 270 million years old · 600 of its stars as Gaia measured them
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M38 · NGC 1912
- size
- 53 light-years across