The moon will be closest to the Pleiades in the hours following sunset.

Seven sisters constellation’s brightest members will be hidden from view for about an hour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Pleiades, a star cluster about 440 light-years from Earth. (ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) The ...

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The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...

February full moon: Between January 26 and February 1, the waxing Moon will sweep across star-dense stretches of the sky, ...

Just about everybody knows the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters. They represent the daughters of the ancient Greek gods Atlas and Pleione. After Orion's Belt and the Big Dipper, it ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — High above the horizon on crisp autumn nights, a shimmering cluster of blue-hued stars begins to appear. Known as the Pleiades, or the seven sisters, these stars have been ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The closest conjunction of Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place early this week. Two objects are said to be in conjunction when they join up or ...

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