The Southern Beehive — or NGC 2516 — seen in a new image from The Cosmic Companion, created with Telescope Live! — Nearly 1,300 light years from Earth, in the southern constellation of Carina, the open star cluster NGC 2516 shines from the light of thousands of stars. Stars forming a halo around this body stretch 1,600 light years from side to side. From Earth, light from these nascent stellar furnaces fill…