Pleiades
The Seven Sisters, a cluster of young blue stars that most eyes see as a tiny dipper of six or seven.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Open star cluster
- Distance
- 425 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.6, easy to see with the eye
- Size in the sky
- About 5 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Catalogue
- M 45
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Near it in the sky
- HyadesAn open cluster in Taurus, about a fist away.
- AldebaranAn orange giant in Taurus, about a fist away.
- AlgolA blue-white main-sequence star in Perseus, about a hand span away.
- ElnathA blue-white giant in Taurus, about a hand span away.
- Crab NebulaA supernova remnant in Taurus, about a hand span away.