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The Pleiades is a star cluster you can see without a telescope! Though called the “seven sisters” for its brightest members, the cluster contains over a thousand stars loosely bound by gravity. Our WISE telescope captured this infrared image: https://go.nasa.gov/3XJ1HE7 #StarrySights
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Seven Sisters Get WISE

This image shows the famous Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; they are what astronomers call an open cluster of stars, loosely bound to each other to eventually go their separate ways.
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I have always liked saying that name, Pleiades☺💥

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