Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  19 Tau)  ·  25 Tau)  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  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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The Pleiades (also Atlantians, Atlantiades, Seven Stars, Dove,[4] Seven Sisters, Gluckhenne[5]) are an open star cluster that can be seen with the naked eye. In the Messier catalog it has the designation M45. They are part of our galaxy, the Milky Way. They got their name from the Pleiades of Greek mythology. The brightest stars are also named after individual Pleiades or their parents.

Located almost 140 parsecs away in the constellation Taurus, the cluster contains at least 400 stars with a total mass of at least 760 solar masses and is about 125 million years old.[6] The number of stars can also be significantly higher and is sometimes assumed to be over 1000, since on the one hand close double star systems are not included in the specification and many very faint stars can be covered by dust and gas clouds and were therefore not detected.[6]

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Plejaden, Simone Grosso