On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star cluster, popularly known as the "Seven Sisters." The details vary depending ...
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the Seven Sisters star cluster may be one of the first astronomical subjects ever recorded. It was known to the Greek poet Hesiod almost 3,000 years ago and it ...
M45, the Pleiades star cluster, in a series of exposures to ... also known as the “Seven Sisters” and M45, is a open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus about 440 light-years distant ...