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... Located 440 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, the Pleiades cluster includes six naked-eye stars (and one variable star that may have once been naked-eye as well) along with thousands of other, fainter stars. ...
... Click the above image of the Pleiades to view an animation zooming in on nebula IC 349. above: AAO / Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; animation: STScI / T. Dickinson / C. Vaughn / DSS / HHT ...
... Venus shines brilliantly before dawn in February and March, much as it did the evening of April 10, 2007, when the Pleiades star cluster lay just above it on the right side of this image. ...
... February 2011 : The lovely Pleiades have called from the sky for millennia. ... The Pleiades (M45), an open star cluster also known as the Seven Sisters, shine ... month, face south, and look high in the sky for M45, the Pleiades open star cluster ...
... After you tour the Pleiades in the December issue, check out these M45 fun facts, introduction to binoculars, and a December ... In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the half-sisters of the Hyades, the V-shaped head of Taurus the Bull and another ...
... simulation, which was run on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center ... to run the full computation on the Pleiades supercomputer, recently ranked as the ...