The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...

Now Orion and the Pleiades move across the sky with him chasing them still. The Pleiades are actually an open star cluster of more than 800 stars that form together from a cloud of gas and dust ...

The constellations of Orion and Taurus point the way to two shining star clusters now visible in binoculars. Learn how to spot the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters at SPACE.com.

Space.com: Now is an ideal time to explore the profusion of star clusters in the evening sky, as well as a comet that should be visible through binoculars.

The Pleiades star cluster is a collection of stars that are grouped close together. The moon will be nearly directly below the cluster Wednesday and just to the left of it by the next night.

For the Orion Nebula cluster calculation, Kroupa assumed that about 400,000 years ago the radiation from new-born massive hot stars drove out two thirds of the gas initially present.

The Pleiades Star Cluster Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis The Leonid meteor shower has come and gone, but there’s plenty going on this week to keep stargazers looking up. This Friday night ...

At the last night sky program, the telescope captured a beautiful image of Pleiades. This little fuzzy open star cluster sits out in front of the constellations of Orion and Taurus. Orion can be ...

The Pleiades star cluster is one of the top showpieces of the night sky. This beautiful bouquet of blue-white stars stands out well on autumn and winter evenings.

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

From New York, the moon will miss two of the seven brightest Pleiades stars, Maia (3.9) and Taygeta (4.3). Soon after 10 p.m. the moon will have moved beyond the cluster. Specific times and zones ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter ...