Pleiades

Pleiades — star cluster, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

The Seven Sisters — the sky’s most famous cluster, young hot stars still wrapped in wisps of the reflection nebula they are drifting through.

Type
Open star cluster
Distance
444 light-years
Stars
~1,000 (seven by eye)
Age
~100 million years

Seeing Pleiades in real time

Pleiades is placed at its true position on the sky and at its real measured distance, not as a flat backdrop. Fly out from the Sun in the live 3D view and watch it change from a point of light into structure as you approach, with the scale bar showing just how far out you have travelled.

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