A star cluster within a nebula. Photo Credit: NASA. A galaxy with a white center surrounded by pink lobes above and below it. Photo Credit: NASA.

It traverses Aries from the 10th to the 28th, entering Taurus the Bull just less than 10° southwest of M45, the Pleiades star cluster. There are two ways to appreciate Venus in the predawn sky ...

Looking for Saturn? On the night of May 22, the planet will be just 2°28’—or the distance of about 2.5 pinky fingers at arm’s length—away from the waning crescent moon.

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The Pleiades star cluster and the other stars of Taurus rising above Mount Kerkeslin in Jasper National Park. Composite Photograph by Alan Dyer, VWPics/Redux. Look to northern skies.

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A map of the Pleiades star cluster has also been found among the Lascaux frescoes. And another pattern of stars, drawn 14,000 years ago, has been identified in a cave in Spain. According to German ...

The Pleiades Star Cluster as seen from Big Bend National Park, Texas (Photo: NPS) 5. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Northeastern Minnesota.

Later that decade, Hubble studied the young star cluster NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a companion galaxy to the Milky Way located some 200,000 light-years away.

Glittering Diamonds of the Cosmos : A gleaming star cluster, photographed by NASA's space telescope, shines like celestial baubles against the darkness of space. A Starry Tapestry : Fragile designs of ...