Platais 8
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Platais 8
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Platais 8, also known as the a Carinae cluster or HIP 45080 Cluster is a small and faint open cluster located in the southern constellation Carina. It is estimated to be 440 light years distant based on parallax measurements. The cluster was first noticed by astronomer Imants Platais in 1998. A 2005 paper suggests that Platais 8 might have formed near the area where the Scorpius-Centaurus association is located. The SIMBAD database lists the cluster having 28,185 members but the majority of the
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Faint open cluster in the constellation Carina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platais_8
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2023-12-03T03:32:48Z
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