Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  11 Tau  ·  11.98  ·  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  33 Tau  ·  36 Tau  ·  41 Tau  ·  44 Tau  ·  44 p Tau  ·  690 Wratislavia  ·  Atlas  ·  B207  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  HD22627  ·  HD22680  ·  HD22886  ·  And 451 more.
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A LONG over-due post. I photographed the Pleiades here back over the Winter and processed the image so many times and just couldn't get it to the way I wanted it. Well, finally, here it is! M45 and the surrounding molecular dust cloud in the constellation Taurus! Believe it or not, the dust in front of the Pleiades is brown just like the rest of it, but because it has the bright blue stars behind the dust, it turns it into a reflection nebula and the dust is illuminated blue. As if you shined a blue flashlight onto an object. Fun Fact: in Japanese, the Pleiades is called Subaru. And now you know where the car logo came from.

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