#messier 45

[quiltofstars]

The Pleiades, M45 // Alex Ranous

[clouds-inside]

the seven sisters - pleiades 🩵🌌

[windsfish]

Points telescope at the sky no planning no experience no standards and taking some mid pictures of whatever for fun #AWESOME

[the-maddest-robot]

Photo of the Pleiades (Messier 45) I took to test my new telescope. This is an open cluster of stars situated about 440 light years from earth, the brighter stars of the cluster are visible with the naked eye (around 5 to 10 stars visible depending of the light pollution, weather and eye accommodation do darkness). Unfortunately, the nebulosity, which I composed of dust clouds reflecting the light from the bright stars, is only visible in photos or with (relatively) large telescope. The cluster is about 100 million years old which is young (for an astronomical object), the more visible stars are hot blue giants, but many other, less visible, stars are present in the cluster. This cluster due to its high visibility has taken an important place in many cultures and mythologies.

(as a fun fact the name of M45 in Japanese is Subaru, and yes the car brand dose gets its name for this star cluster (which explains the logo of the brand))

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Timelapse of Orion, Sirius, Mars, and the Pleiades Cluster in the night sky over West O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. 🌌

2/8/23

📽: Travis Shak

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[alascene]

The Pleiades and the partial lunar eclipse last night, right around where it peaked (97%)

This is a composite of 2 shots- 10 seconds for the stars and 4 seconds for the moon

[sitting-on-me-bum]

This is an outstanding image of shining stars over the photographer's region in winter.

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus.

Photographer: Jashanpreet Singh Dingra

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021