BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

The Jewel Box (NGC 4755)

OPEN CLUSTER · sapphires and a ruby
The Jewel Box (NGC 4755)
AI illustration of the real object
WHERE beside the Southern CrossAGE only about 14 million years

The astronomer John Herschel called it a casket of variously colored precious stones, and the name stuck. Through any telescope the Jewel Box sparkles blue white, with one striking ruby red supergiant set in the middle, the colors of a very young cluster whose heaviest star has already aged into redness while its siblings still blaze blue.

🚀 Fly there in the 3D universe

Discover more

Snake Nebula (Barnard 72)Ophiuchus, the 13th signButterfly Nebula (NGC 6302)Mercury's Shrink CliffsCygnus, the SwanSagittarius, the ArcherAll objects in the library