Two of the most popular sights in the night sky will join up tonight in a gorgeous pairing. The four-day-old waxing crescent moon will be positioned just below the Pleiades star cluster, also known as ...
A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...
You might want to start your Sunday extra early this weekend. That's because on June 22, a triangular arrangement of the waning crescent moon flanked by Venus and the Pleiades star cluster will be ...
The Pleiades star cluster or Seven Sisters is part of many Indigenous groups' songlines, as well as being important in cultures around the world. A new study has uncovered more than 3,000 stars that ...
The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...
The moon will meet up with the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster, on Friday (Feb. 16), also displaying a rare optical feature on its surface that can be seen with telescopes. The ...