Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  16 Tau  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  HD23171  ·  HD23194  ·  HD23246  ·  HD23247  ·  HD23289  ·  HD23325  ·  HD23326  ·  HD23351  ·  HD23361  ·  And 81 more.
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The Pleiades, M45

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The Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters is an open cluster 444 light years from us, one of the closest open star cluster to Earth.  The nebulosity surrounding the stars was once thought to be remnants of the nebula that formed these relatively young suns, but now astronomers believe the nebulosity is from an unrelated nebula.

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The Pleiades, M45, Jerry Gerber