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The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars ...
Uranus will also be on show, if you fancy a more challenging target. Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, ...
The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...
Venus is notably brighter — magnitude –4.1, far outshining magnitude 0.9 Aldebaran, the brightest star in the Taurus and ...
The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.
Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster. Stargazers in the U.S. can find the cosmic trio ...
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 ...
The CME captured by SOHO was especially notable for passing in front of the Pleiades, a star cluster about 444 light-years from Earth ...