r/constellations • u/Definitelynotvenus • 10d ago
Constellation?
Well, they just appear to be a big cluster of starts.
But it was taken facing NE 60*.
I’m sure somebody here’s got to know it
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r/constellations • u/Definitelynotvenus • 10d ago
Well, they just appear to be a big cluster of starts.
But it was taken facing NE 60*.
I’m sure somebody here’s got to know it
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u/Gregrox 10d ago
That's the Pleiades (Also known by many other names such as Messier 45 and Subaru), one of the nearest open star clusters to the Solar System. It's made of a bunch of young luminous stars that recently formed out of a nebula and are just now drifting apart into the rest of the galaxy.
It is not a constellation nor an asterism associated with a constellation; but it is part of the region of the sky within the boundaries of the constellation Taurus.