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
- ^ a b NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
- ^ "NGC 1856". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
- ^ a b Hodge, P. W.; Lee, S.-O.: LMC blue globular clusters containing Cepheids. I. NGC 1856; ApJ 276, S. 509-518 (1984)
- ^ 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)
- ^ "NGC/IC Project". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
External links
Media related to NGC 1856 at Wikimedia Commons
