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Pleiades Star Cluster Sparkles in Amazing Stargazer Photo
« on: January 14, 2014, 05:46:29 pm »
Pleiades Star Cluster Sparkles in Amazing Stargazer Photo
SPACE.com
by Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor  23 hours ago



The Pleiades star cluster (M45) is a group of 800 stars formed about 100 million years ago



The Pleiades star cluster dazzles brilliantly in this deep-exposure, widefield photo recently sent in to SPACE.com by a veteran astrophotographer.

"The exposure was deep enough to draw out the extended interstellar dust surrounding the cluster," night sky photographer Josh Knutson of Aurora, Colo.wrote SPACE.com. "There are also some tiny magnitude 15-17 galaxies showing up in the background."

Comprising 800 stars, the Pleiades star cluster (M45) was formed about 100 million years ago and is located 410 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. One light-year is the distance light travels in a single year, which is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). Bright stars Atlas and Pleione, along with their seven daughter stars make up what we can typically see with the naked eye.


http://news.yahoo.com/pleiades-star-cluster-sparkles-amazing-stargazer-photo-181029833.html
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