From New York, the moon will miss two of the seven brightest Pleiades stars, Maia (3.9) and Taygeta (4.3). Soon after 10 p.m. the moon will have moved beyond the cluster.

The next Pleiades occultation that will favor North America will come on the morning of Sunday, July 20 and will involve a ...

During the morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 22, skywatchers will be able to watch a waning gibbous moon cross in front of probably the most popular of all the star clusters in the sky: the Pleiades.

After an early-morning occultation of the Pleiades, the Moon moves on and passes 5° north of Jupiter in Taurus at 11 P.M. EST. It’s a lovely pairing that astrophotographers won’t want to ...

The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters. It may have gotten that name from the oldest story ever told. (Image credit: LazyPixel/Brunner Sébastien via Getty Images) ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

The most brilliant stars of the Pleiades, known at the Seven Sisters, are bright enough to see with the naked eye, yet too bright for high-precision telescopes like Kepler to resolve with their ...

Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago ...

The Pleiades (The Seven Sisters) Easily visible to the naked eye in the constellation Taurus, the Pleiades is a cluster of about 3000 stars in all.

The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters. It may have gotten that name from the oldest story ever told. (Image credit: LazyPixel/Brunner Sébastien via Getty Images) ...