M67
open star cluster · the oldest in Messier's list · in Cancer
2,731 light-years from Earth
About 4 billion years old, the oldest open cluster in Messier's list and nearly as old as the Sun, which it matches in make-up. Its Sun-like stars spin once in about 26 days, as the Sun does.
- 2,730 light-years (Gaia) · its stars spread over about 35 light-years
- about 4 billion years old · 600 of its stars as Gaia measured them
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M67 · NGC 2682
- size
- 34 light-years across