Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  LBN 770  ·  LBN 771  ·  LBN 772  ·  M 45  ·  Merope  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Pleiades  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star ηTau
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Merope Nebula, Bob Birket
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Merope Nebula

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Merope Nebula

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The Merope Nebula, or NGC 1435, is a reflection nebula in the Pleiades  open star cluster within the constellation Taurus the Bull. This is a chance encounter between the cluster and the molecular cloud.

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Merope Nebula, Bob Birket