The Pleiades

• RA 3:44, Dec +21:58 (Taurus)
• Type: open cluster / reflection nebulae
• Distance: 400 ly
• aka The Seven Sisters, Subaru
• The Pleiades is easily visible with the naked eye.
• The seven "sisters" are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno; Atlas and Pleione are their "father" and "mother".
  
• This cluster also includes over 500 dimmer stars spread over an area four times wider than the Moon.

UKS 60k jpg
SEDS 60k gif
(David Malin)
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