Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  12.61  ·  16 Tau  ·  164 Eva  ·  17 Tau  ·  18 Tau  ·  19 Tau)  ·  19 q Tau  ·  20 Tau  ·  21 Tau  ·  22 Tau  ·  23 Tau  ·  24 Tau  ·  25 Tau)  ·  25 eta Tau  ·  26 Tau  ·  27 Tau  ·  28 Tau  ·  Alcyone  ·  Asterope  ·  Atlas  ·  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  Celaeno  ·  Electra  ·  HD23061  ·  HD23155  ·  HD23156  ·  HD23157  ·  HD23158  ·  HD23170  ·  HD23171  ·  And 116 more.
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M45, Pleiades, Stephen Kennedy
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M45, Pleiades

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M45, Pleiades

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Doesn't everyone love M45, the iconic asterism so popular that even a car manufacturer adopted the star formation pattern to use as a trademark? Yet it's the blue-ish refection from the nearby dust cloud moving at a speed of approximately 18 km/s relative to the stars in the cluster that attracts many of us to this deep space object. It even makes mad lawyers with so-so processing skills smile a big smile.

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M45, Pleiades, Stephen Kennedy