Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, when Venus appears as a bright 'morning star' alongside the magnificent ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

A worldwide network of radio telescopes measured the distance to the famous star cluster the Pleiades to an accuracy within 1 percent. The result resolved a controversy raised by a satellite's ...

Good morning. It is November 9, and today's photograph brings the Pleiades into focus. This bright, open cluster of stars is known by several names.

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.

Welcome to the 198th edition of 6 Storm Team Starwatch. This is a blog that will be updated every Friday and will list events happening in the sky. Friday, February 16th 2024 The First Quarter Moon… ...

The Pleiades will be the last of the three bodies to rise above the horizon at around 3.15 a.m. ET (0715 GMT) on June 22, and will be visible for a little over an hour before it becomes ...

Stay up late tonight to see a thin crescent moon rise near the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades and gas giant Jupiter in the early hours of Friday (July 14).

Astronomers have used a worldwide network of radio telescopes to resolve a controversy over the distance to a famous star cluster—a controversy that posed a potential challenge to scientists ...

Radio telescopes settle controversy over distance to Pleiades The distance to the “Seven Sisters” of 443 light-years is accurate, the astronomers said, to within 1 percent.