Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

A dark nebula faces a dangerous future as it advances toward a bright star in the Pleiades cluster. Already ghostly tendrils ahead of the black cloud are being destroyed by the blue star, one of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14. ... And at 500,000 years old - a small fraction of the Pleiades open cluster’s age of 115 million years ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster.

10 must-see pics from NASA Hubble’s Messier Catalog. ... Messier 45, commonly known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, is a bright open cluster of stars that is easily visible to the naked eye.

The Pleiades will be the last of the three bodies to rise above the horizon at around 3.15 a.m. ET (0715 GMT) on June 22, and will be visible for a little over an hour before it becomes ...

WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope marked its 35th anniversary this week and NASA celebrated by releasing a series of stunning new photos from the observatory. With nearly 1.7 million ...

The next Pleiades occultation that will favor North America will come on the morning of Sunday, July 20 and will involve a slender (23% illuminated) waning crescent moon.

Despite being down to two operational gyroscopes, Hubble is still expected to operate well into the 2030s, NASA said. Latest U.S.