26th December 2015

PLEIADES M45

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-Type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star cluster to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
The cluster is dominated byhot blue and extremely luminous satrs that have formed within the last 100 million years.