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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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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...