Hyades
The nearest star cluster to the Sun, the V-shaped face of Taurus the bull.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Open star cluster
- Distance
- 153 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.5, easy to see with the eye
- Size in the sky
- About 10 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Catalogue
- Mel 25
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “Hyades (star cluster)”, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perryman et al. 1998). All sources