Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

Skies will be clear Wednesday night if you’d like to do a little stargazing. The closest conjunction of the planet Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place. They will be about 2.6 ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

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Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

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The waxing crescent moon will be close to the densely packed open star cluster also known as "the Seven Sisters" this weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there are seven of ...