IC 348 is a star-forming region in the constellation Perseus located about 1,000 light years from the Sun. It consists of nebulosity and an associated 2-million-year-old cluster of roughly 400 stars within an angular diameter of 20″.

Dec 13, 2023 · This image from the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the central portion of the star cluster IC 348. Astronomers combed the cluster in search of tiny, free-floating brown dwarfs: objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets.

Dec 13, 2023 · This image from the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows the central portion of the star cluster IC 348. Astronomers combed the cluster in search of tiny, free-floating brown dwarfs: objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets.

Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust-reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored at infrared wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Aug 6, 2024 · The IC 348 nebula can be found about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus, completely on the edge towards Aries. A good way to find it is to spot the bright star on the south side of Perseus, and to slowly make your way towards the closest bright star of the Aries constellation.

Build: c7b0b5754066ce00a4a54ab6b865ac30a3b8ba29 . Not far from the much more famous NGC 1333 (the Embryo nebula), and about a third of the way from the also famous California nebula (NGC 1499) to the extremely famous Pleiades (M45) in the larger Pers...

Today's IC 348 (Omicron Persei Cloud) - Star Cluster + Nebula in Perseus rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London): Complete details of deep sky object IC 348 in the constellation of Perseus.

Dec 13, 2023 · This image of star cluster IC 348, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky.

IC348 is a star forming region just south of the bright mag 3.8 star o-Per at the bottom end of the constellation of Perseus. Actually, IC348 refers to a young, open cluster that is ~990 light years distant and that is responsible for the reflection nebula, VdB 19, shown in the above image.

IC 348 is a young star cluster and star formation region. The cluster contains about 400 stars spread over an area of about 20 arcminutes. The most massive stars are the double star system BD +31°643, which are of the spectral type B5 and have an angular distance of …