Open in 3DWhat it is
The Seven Sisters: a cluster of hot young stars about 100 million years old, passing through a cloud of dust that reflects their blue light.
The picture hangs at that distance facing Earth, as large as it is on the sky; how deep the object is cannot be seen, so it is flat.
The picture
- Taken by
- NOIRLab
- Picture spans
- about 8.9 ly
- From the Sun
- 444 light-years
- RA / Dec
- 56.55° / 24.11°
Pleiades
The Pleiades, also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444 light-years, it is among the star clusters nearest to Earth and is the Messier object nearest to Earth, being the star cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
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In the Milky Way
- Pillars of CreationStar-forming columns in the Eagle Nebula · 5,700 light-years3D
Picture: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScI).
- Orion NebulaNearest large star-forming region, M42 · 1,344 light-years3D
- Crab NebulaSupernova remnant, M1 · 6,500 light-years3D
- Cosmic CliffsEdge of NGC 3324 in Carina · 7,600 light-years3D
- Horsehead NebulaDark nebula, Barnard 33 · 1,375 light-years3D
- Carina NebulaStar-forming region, NGC 3372 · 7,500 light-years3D
Picture: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
- Sagittarius A*, imagedEvent Horizon Telescope, 2022 · 26,670 light-years3D
- Eagle NebulaStar cluster and nebula, M16 · 5,700 light-years3D
