Pleiades (Seven Sisters)
A tiny dipper of bright blue stars — one of the prettiest sights in the sky.
Most people see six or seven stars; binoculars show dozens. They are young stars, born together about 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.
Facts
- Distance
- about 440 light-years
- Stars
- more than 1,000
- How to see
- eyes, best in binoculars