💫 Star cluster
The Pleiades
The Seven Sisters: a family of young stars you can see without a telescope.
- Kind
- Open cluster: young stars in a loose group
- Distance
- 450 light-years away
- Stars
- Over 1,000
Did you know?
- People have watched it since ancient times, and Galileo was the first to look at it through a telescope.
- From a reasonably dark place it is easy to spot with your own eyes, as a small misty huddle of stars in Taurus.
Find it in the sky
Photographed or visited by
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Gaia
Mapped nearly two billion stars, then switched itself off.
More NASA photos of the PleiadesStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of deep space
The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.