File:The "Jewel Box", NGC 4755 (noao-6053).tiff

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NGC4755, an open star cluster in the constellation Crux, displays its many colors in this picture from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope.

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English: NGC4755, an open star cluster in the constellation Crux, displays its many colors in this picture from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope. It is popularly known as the Jewel Box because an early catalog described it as a "superb piece of jewelry".
Date 30 June 2020, 21:34:00 (upload date)
Source The "Jewel Box", NGC 4755
Author NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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