... Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424 . ... Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 . ... Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact. Found near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, they contain from 100 to 10,000 stars, all of which formed at nearly the same time. ... Some 7,000 light-years away, though, this pair of open or galactic star clusters is an easy binocular target, a lovely starfield in the northern constellation Perseus. Saturns Rings from the Dark Side . ...