PLEIADES AND TAURUS MOLECOLAR CLOUDS (Emanuele La Barbera)

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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PLEIADES AND TAURUS MOLECOLAR CLOUDS

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PLEIADES AND TAURUS MOLECOLAR CLOUDS

Pleiades, also known as the seven sisters, the Chioccetta or with the initials M45 in the catalog of Charles Messier, are an open star cluster with associated diffuse nebula located in the constellation of Taurus.
It is one of the most well-known, photographed and studied asterisms and deep sky objects ever. Since ancient times we find myths from civilizations all over the world: from the myth of the 7 Greek muses to the calendars of the Māori people.
440 light years away from Earth, the cluster, whose core has a radius of about 8 light years, contains more than 1000 statistically confirmed members.
Under ideal conditions it is possible to film the nebulosity around the cluster. This type of nebula is called a reflection nebula and appears bright due to the reflection of the light from a bright, hot star by the dust in the nebula. In the case of the Pleiades, it is a complex system of reflection nebulae; the brightest are NGC 1435, which surrounds the star Merope, vdB 23, vdB20 and vdB21.
Around the diffuse system there are also the faint dark powders that extend throughout the constellation of Taurus and which for me have represented greater astrophotographic interest, given the difficulty in terms of acquisition.
This is a new editing of a recent photo, in which I've enhanced the molecolar clouds around M45.

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