Join the Buffalo Museum of Science to witness iThe Moon Occults Pleiades,i what NASA describes as the imost famous star cluster in the sky,i on Saturday, April 1, 2006, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m ...

The family connection is apt because the Pleiades is an open star cluster, a system in which all the stars are believed to have been born from the same cloud of gas and dust. This makes the ...

On Tuesday, April 1, in the low western sky, it will be close to the Seven Little Sisters, otherwise known as the bright Pleiades star cluster ... behemoth of our solar system.

both from within our solar system and from external sources like other stars and the Milky Way galaxy’s center. Live Science ...

The Pleiades star cluster and bright Jupiter appear about halfway up inside the zodiacal light's "pointed finger." Orion is to the left. For a brightness comparison, the faint winter Milky Way ...

There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and Altair as her favorites in “The Pillow Book.” But I believe there ...