The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...

Diagram courtesy Mike Lynch Through even a ... I know you’ll fall in love with it. Like the Pleiades, both clusters are tremendously large families of young stars born together, many of which ...

AbstractRecent reanalyses of Hipparcos parallax data confirm a previously noted discrepancy with the Pleiades distance modulus estimated from main-sequence fitting in the color-magnitude diagram. One ...

The Pleiades star cluster is one of the top showpieces of the night sky. This beautiful bouquet of blue-white stars stands out well on autumn and winter evenings. There are hundreds of star ...

The moon has a date with the Seven Sisters star cluster, also known as the Pleiades, in the early morning hours of Friday, July 14. Skywatchers on Earth won't be the only ones looking over this ...

This is the Pleiades star cluster as you've never seen it before — in deep field! Also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters, Pleiades is probably one of the most famous and well-studied star ...

During the overnight hours of Feb. 5-6, the moon will pass through the famous Pleiades star cluster while one day past its half-lit first quarter phase. This will actually be the third time in the ...

People both modern and ancient have long known of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus. But this famous assembly could point the way to the world ...

In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there are seven of ...