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The Jewel Box, Kappa Crucis Cluster, NGC 4755, is an open cluster in the constellation Crux, originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during 1751–1752. This famous cluster was later named the Jewel Box by Sir John Herschel when he described its telescopic appearance as "...a superb piece of fancy jewellery" It is easily visible to the naked eye as a hazy star some 1.0° southeast of the first-magnitude star Beta Crucis. This hazy star was given the Bayer star designation Kappa Crucis, from which the cluster takes one of its common names. The modern designation Kappa Crucis has been assigned to one of the stars in the base of the A-shaped asterism of the cluster
This cluster is one of the youngest known, with an estimated age of 14 million years. It has a total integrated magnitude of 4.2, is located 1.95 kpc. or 6,440 light years from Earth, and contains just over 100 stars.
Jewel box or Jewel Box can mean
- A container for gemstones
- Jewel Box (St. Louis), listed on the NRHP in Missouri
- Jewel Boxes, a name for eight banks designed by architect Louis Sullivan
- Jewel Box Park, a type of baseball park
- Jewel Box (star cluster) (NGC 4755), a star cluster in Crux
- "Jewel Box", a track on Jeff Buckley's Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
- The Jewel Box, a pasticcio opera with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Paul Griffiths
- Chamidae, a family of bivalves known as the jewelboxes
- Jewel-box pea crab, a common name for the Gemmotheres chamae crab
- Jewel Box (video game) or Jewelbox, a tetris-style arcade game for the Mac.
- Jewel case, Jewel box or Super Jewel Box, types of Optical disc packaging
- Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah at Agra is known as Jewel Box for its intricate parchin kari work.
Jewel Box is a computer game developed by Varcon Systems for the Macintosh. It is a clone of Sega's Columns.
The Jewel Box (also known as the St. Louis Floral Conservatory and the City of St. Louis Floral Display House) is a greenhouse located in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. It now serves as a public horticultural facility and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
It was designed by architect William C. E. Becker and built in 1936 by the Robert Paulus Construction Company. It consists of five stepped, composition-covered wood roofs with clerestories, rather than a regular glass roof, in order to prevent damage from frequent hailstorms.
Usage examples of "jewel box".
He laid the jewel box down in front of her and patted it with his hand.
All that time the necklace was in the jewel box on her dressing table.
I stood, plucking at the fringes on the skirt, while Maud ran to her jewel box for a brooch, that she fastened to my bosom, tilting her head to see how it looked.