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The Pleiades open cluster

by

S.Guisard/Novapix

Reference

a-aou90-00015

Date

2007-03-03

The Pleiades (M45) are about 440 light years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years. The trace of asteroid 162 Laurentia, discovered in 1876, is visible in this image.