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Enchanted Learning® Photoblog Posted December 13, 2013 7:23 pm

The Pleiades, in Taurus

The Pleiades, is a beautiful open cluster of stars that has been known since antiquity. The distance from us is uncertain, but it is somewhere from 400 to 440 light-years away.

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