Star Cluster

"Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident. The featured exposure, taken from Florida, USA, covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon." | Image Credit & Copyright: Damien Cannane

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Find here the 15 brightest star clusters you can see without any special equipment. Observing deep-sky objects is easier than you think!

The Pleides Star Cluster Taurus

M45. The wonderful Pleiades Star Cluster⠀ -⠀ Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster?⠀ -⠀ Credi

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A small portion of the nebula star cluster NGC 2074, located 170,000 light-years away

Hubble Space Telescope on Instagram: "A handful of bright stars are strewn across the cosmos like sparkling sequins on velvet in this new Hubble image of a section of Messier 67. M67 is an open star cluster, which means that its over 500 stars are loosely grouped together by their mutual gravity. This is one of the oldest known open clusters at approximately 4 billion years of age – about the same as our Sun! Image description: A scattering of white and reddish stars against black space…

Unlike most globular clusters, Ruprecht 106 may be what astronomers call a single population globular cluster.

This star-studded image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts globular cluster NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of stars tightly bound together by gravity. The bright foreground stars at the center of the image reside between Earth and the cluster, and are distinguished by the crisscross diffraction spikes that form when their light interacts with the structures supporting…