APOD: 2019 November 7 - Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione

Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is titled "Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione." Perhaps better known as The Seven Sisters or more simply The Pleiades, you can see Messier 45 overhead near the constellation Taurus if you are up early in the morning (but you won't be able to see the individual stars). The fuzziness in this image (about 20 light years across) is actually reflection nebulae between Earth and the star cluster. The stars and dust clouds are not related; they just happen to be passing through the same area of space. Galileo first sketched the orientation of Pleiades in 1610.