See the moon dance with the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades before dawn on Aug. 9
and is defined as an open cluster, which means that its stars are believed to have formed at around the same time from the same collapsing cloud of gas and dust. Of these 1,000 stars, six or seven are bright enough over Earth to be seen with the naked eye hence the Pleiades place in many cultures and a wealth of mythology.
The name the Seven Sisters arises from an association with Greek Mythology and the seven sisters of the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione, Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, who were transformed into doves then stars by Zeus. The seven brightest stars of the open star cluster are named after the sisters, with two other bright stars in the Pleiades names after their parents.
Despite looking fairly diminutive in the night sky, the actual star cluster M45 is huge. Its mass in stars is equivalent to around 800 suns and stretches for about 17.5
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