List of infrared clusters
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This is a list of infrared clusters. An infrared cluster is a type of star cluster only visible in infrared light.
Table
| Cluster identifier |
Image | Epoch J2000 | Constellation | Distance (Light-years) |
Age (Myr) |
Diameter | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. A. | Dec. | |||||||
| Quintuplet Cluster[1] |  |
17h 46m 13.9s | −28° 49′ 48″ | Sagittarius | 26,000 | 4.8 Million | 50" | |
| Arches Cluster[2] |  |
17h 45m 50.5s | –28° 49′ 28″ | Sagittarius | 25,000 | 2.5 Million | ||
| Young Stellar Cluster of RCW 38[3] |  |
08h 59m 05.52s | −47° 30′ 39.2″ | Vela | 5,500 | |||
| DBS2003 118[4] |  |
17h 19m 48.5s | −39° 20′ 19″ | Scorpius | 8,800 | |||
| DB2000 56[5] |  |
17h 46m 37.2s | −29° 22′ 02″ | Sagittarius | 5,055 | Located behind the unrelated open cluster Collinder 347 | ||
| DB2000 58[6] |  |
17h 46m 12s | −28° 51′ 0″ | Sagittarius | 4,890 | |||
| DB2000 5[7] |  |
17h 47m 08s | −28° 46′ 30″ | Sagittarius | 4890 | One of two located in Sh 2-20 | ||
| DB2000 6[7] | |
17h 47m 08s | −28° 46′ 30″ | Sagittarius | 4890 | One of two located in Sh 2-20 | ||