NGC 1856

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NGC 1856
NGC 1856 WFC3.jpg
Hubble Space Telescope photograph of NGC 1856
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
Constellation Dorado
Right ascension 05h 09m 29.4s [1]
Declination −69° 07 39 [1]
Apparent magnitude (V)10.1 [2]
Physical characteristics
See also: Globular cluster, List of globular clusters

NGC 1856 is a young, massive star cluster similar to a "blue globular cluster" [3] in the Magellanic Clouds in the constellation Dorado. Its age was initially reported estimated to be 80 million years [3] , and later estimated to be around 300 million years [4] The object was discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop with a 9-inch reflecting telescope. [5]

Sources

  1. 1 2 NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  2. "NGC 1856". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
  3. 1 2 Hodge, P. W.; Lee, S.-O.: LMC blue globular clusters containing Cepheids. I. NGC 1856; ApJ 276, S. 509-518 (1984)
  4. Correnti, M.; Goudfrooij, P.; Puzia, T. H., de Mink, S. E.: New constraints on the star formation history of the star cluster NGC1856; MNRAS, 450, 3054–3068 (2015)
  5. "NGC/IC Project". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2020-04-12.