NGC 2009 is an open star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It was discovered by the astronomer John Frederick William Herschel in 1836. The cluster is approximately 163,000 light-years away from Earth and contains several young, bright stars. The cluster is notable for its rich population of blue supergiants, which are massive stars in their early stages of evolution. NGC 2009 is often studied to understand stellar formation and evolution in a different galactic environment compared to our own Milky Way.