Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  M 45  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleiades  ·  Sterope I (21 Tau)  ·  The star 18 Tau  ·  The star Alcyone (η Tau  ·  The star Asterope  ·  The star Atlas (27 Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23 Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28 Tau)  ·  The star Sterope II (22 Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (q Tau
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M45 Wide Field, Dieter Wiedenhofer
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M45 Wide Field

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M45 Wide Field

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The Pleiades (M45) are a cluster of young blue stars in a distance of about 430 ly (Light-years). The bluish dust which scatters the light from these stars lies about 1 to 2 ly in front of them. The nebula probably belongs to the Taurus Molecular Cloud which also extends within a distance of about 420 ly to 645 ly, see . Source: http://www.simg.de/nebulae2/tau-01.html

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M45 Wide Field, Dieter Wiedenhofer