Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking revelation about the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This iconic celestial feature, visible from Earth, is now understood to be ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...

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The Pleiades themselves are famously two things: a star cluster with seven prominent bodies, and an old Greek myth. This piece was originally composed as a commission for a group of Davis thought to ...

Visible to the unaided eye as a tiny congregation of stars due west of Taurus’ V-shaped head, the Pleiades (M45), also known as the Seven Sisters, is one of the sky’s premier open star clusters. Under ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. The Pleiades star, ...

M45, the Pleiades star cluster, displaying its spectacular nebulosity (Photo by: Alan Dyer /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If you have ever looked at the night sky from the northern ...