The Beehive Cluster is one of the closest open star clusters (group of thousands of stars that were formed from a single molecular cloud) to our solar system. Located around 600 light years away in the constellation Cancer, this cluster contains a population of 1000 stars. The stars of this cluster are young, about 600 million years old compared to our Sun’s 4 billion years. It was the 44th entry in the French astronomer Charles Messier’s catalog for his “non-comet list”. That’s why the name M44. In 2012, scientists discovered two planets orbiting two separate stars in this cluster. What was more interesting thing about these two planets, was that they both orbits Sun-like star and are hot-Jupiter, gas giant with characteristics similar to that of Jupiter with high surface temperature due to their close proximity to their stars. The best time to observe the Beehive Cluster is from February to May.