Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  IC 349  ·  LBN 770  ·  LBN 771  ·  LBN 772  ·  LBN 776  ·  M 45  ·  Maia  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope  ·  And 18 more.
M45 - The Pleiades, Michael Siniscalchi
M45 - The Pleiades, Michael Siniscalchi

M45 - The Pleiades

M45 - The Pleiades, Michael Siniscalchi
M45 - The Pleiades, Michael Siniscalchi

M45 - The Pleiades

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 The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light-years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and the nearest Messier object to Earth, being the most obvious star cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.

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M45 - The Pleiades, Michael Siniscalchi