So in total . (Photo by: Alan Dyer /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Pleiades, also known as the “Seven Sisters” and M45, is a open cluster of stars in the constellation ...
About 445 light-years distant and also known as both M45 and the “Seven Sisters,” the Pleiades are seven main bright stars—Alcyone, Atlas, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Pleione—in the ...