IC 4651 [SEP] constellation
IC 4651
IC 4651 is an open cluster of stars located about 2,900 light years distant in the constellation Ara. It was first catalogued by John Louis Emil Dreyer in his 1895 version of the "Index Catalogue". This is an intermediate age cluster that is billion years old. Compared to the Sun, the members of this cluster have a higher abundance of the chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium. The combined mass of the active stars in this cluster is about 630 times the mass of the Sun.
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NGC 4651
NGC 4651 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that can be seen with amateur telescopes, at a distance not well determined that ranges from 35 million light years to 72 million light years
Features.
This member of the Virgo Cluster, located on its outskirts, is known as the "Umbrella Galaxy" due to the umbrella-shaped structure that extends from its disk to the east and that it is composed of stellar streams, being the remnants of a much smaller galaxy that has