Star Cluster
The brightest open cluster in the sky, a knot of hot blue stars that most people can pick out with the naked eye as six or seven points.
| Type | Star Cluster |
|---|---|
| Cluster type | Open |
| Distance from Earth | 444 ly |
| Diameter | 384,861,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.59 × 10^33 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 1.6 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 150 |
At 384,861,000,000,000 km across, Pleiades is 30,204,128,080 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 800 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Pleiades tonight left it around 444 years ago.
Of the 12 star clusters these pages cover, only 1 lie closer to us.
It has been on record since the year 150.
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