The Pleiades

young star cluster · the Seven Sisters · M45

444 light-years from Earth

About a thousand young stars born together some 100 to 125 million years ago. Their brightest members light up a dust cloud the cluster happens to be passing through, in streaks of blue.

• 444 light-years · about 115 million years old
• the dust is not left over from their birth: they are drifting through it

kind

nebula · star cluster

catalogue

M45