The route / Pleiades
Sector 7 · Star cluster
Pleiades
The Seven Sisters: hot blue stars in a faint reflection nebula.
The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters or Messier 45, is a cluster of young, hot blue stars. Six or seven are easy to see without a telescope, and the cluster has hundreds more members.
The stars are around 100 million years old, young for stars. The wispy blue haze around them is a dust cloud the cluster happens to be passing through, lit up by their light, rather than the cloud they were born from.
Key facts
- Distance
- About 440 light-years
- Also called
- Seven Sisters, Messier 45, Subaru
- Age
- About 100 million years
- Visible without a telescope
- Yes, in the constellation Taurus
Pleiades in Comet Courier
The Pleiades is the first sector on the far side of the wormhole. The sky turns deep blue, with the bright cluster and its haze spread across it.