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It's just Me: Pete! Singer and songwriter of Saint Aside! Enjoy my tunes and may Rock never ever die again! ;)The Pleiades (Ple.ia.des |[--pli.?.diz]) - also known as M45, the Seven Sisters, SED, or Subaru (in Japan) - is the name of an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest to the Earth of all open clusters, probably the best known and certainly the most striking to the naked eye. This asterism is sometimes referred to as the Maia Nebula, perhaps erroneously considering that the reflection nebulosity surrounding Maia is extrinsic (see below).The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud that the stars are currently passing through. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, when it will have dispersed due to gravitational interactions with the spiral arms of the galaxy and giant molecular clouds.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia