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Pleiades from en.wikipedia.org
The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters, Messier 45, and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing ...
Pleiades from science.nasa.gov
Commonly called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, M45 is known as an open star cluster. It contains over a thousand stars that are loosely bound by gravity, but it is visually dominated by a handful of its brightest members. One of these stars, Merope, is located just outside the frame of this image to the upper right.
Pleiades from en.wikipedia.org
As noted by scholar Stith Thompson, the constellation was "nearly always imagined" as a group of seven sisters, and their myths explain why there are only six.