Visible to the unaided eye as a tiny congregation of stars due west of Taurus’ V-shaped head, the Pleiades (M45), also known as the Seven Sisters, is one of the sky’s premier open star clusters.

The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars ...

November 12–19, 2015: The Pleiades star cluster (M45) in Taurus is an excellent target for naked-eye and binocular observers, open cluster M34 in Perseus offers small-telescope owners nice views ...

Also called M45, the Pleiades are an open cluster of stars that are a mere 100 million years old—practically newborns, cosmically-speaking. What’s really special about the Pleiades is that ...

Venus is a bright morning star dominating the predawn sky at magnitude –4.2. Today, the blazing planet moves from Aries into Taurus, standing at a point just less than 10° southwest of the Pleiades ...

M45, the Pleiades star cluster, in a series of exposures to test stacking images with HDR ... More techniques. I shot the cluster in a series of 1, 2, 4, and 8 minute exposures, four of each ...

Located around 44 light-years from Earth and also known as Messier 45 (M45), the Pleiades is an important astronomical object throughout history. The Pleiades is comprised of around 1,000 stars ...

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 ...

Look west Sunday for a astronomical treat. On Sunday evening, the crescent moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky.

The cluster is listed in the Messier catalog as M45. Long-exposure photographs show the Pleiades enveloped in a patchy cloud- nebulosity, shining with the same blue-white light as the cluster stars.

This week Hal talks about M45 (The Pleiades Cluster, AKA The Seven Sisters). The Pleiades is an open star cluster that is one of the most beautiful objects in the night sky. And, every year in the ...

Join the Buffalo Museum of Science to witness iThe Moon Occults Pleiades,i what NASA describes as the imost famous star cluster in the sky,i on Saturday, April 1, 2006, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m ...