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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

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 ...

This image of a stunning star cluster seems to resemble old friends sitting in a circle. The celestial object, officially known as M45, is an open star cluster often called the Pleiades. The ...

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 ...