Caroline's Rose Open Star Cluster (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

Caroline's Rose Open Star Cluster

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NGC 7789, also known as Caroline's Rose, is an old open star cluster of the Milky Way, which lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. It hosts a few White Dwarfs of unusually high mass, analyzed in this study.

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Guillaume Seigneuret and NASA

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