Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city . The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident in the above photograph are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the bright cluster stars. Low mass, faint, brown dwarfs have recently been found in the Pleiades .
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