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My star is 7789_Caroline's Rose.

It is an open cluster that lies in Cassiopeia near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, it was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783. 

Her brother Wiliam Herschel inclued it in his catalog as H VI.30. 

This cluster is also known as "White Rose" cluster or "Caroline's Rose" because when seen visually, its loops of stars and dark lanes look like a swirling pattern of rose petals.

And NGC7789 is estimated to be 8,000 light-years distant, 1.6 billion years old.

This group is very old for an open cluster, but far younger than any globular cluster in our galaxy : )

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