Wild Duck Cluster
open star cluster · M11 · in Scutum
7,283 light-years from Earth
One of the richest and most massive open clusters known: thousands of stars born together about 300 million years ago. Its brightest stars form a V, like a flight of wild ducks.
- 7,300 light-years (Gaia) · its stars spread over about 35 light-years
- about 300 million years old · 600 of its stars as Gaia measured them
- kind
- nebula · star cluster
- catalogue
- M11 · NGC 6705
- size
- 33 light-years across